From: "Robert Comer" 

> The other thing to bear in mind is that you may not need Enterprise.
> Enterprise is currently needed if you want to use the prebuilt log
> shipping or clustering, or more than 2 CPUs or more than 4 GB RAM. I
> think you also need Enterprise for indexed views (what Oracle calls
> materialized views).  If you want log shipping on Standard you can RYO.
> I'm using Standard on all my current databases, and it's about 1/4 the
> cost.

We wouldn't need any of those, so no need for enterprise.

- Bob Comer



"Ellen K."  wrote in message
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> The other thing to bear in mind is that you may not need Enterprise.
> Enterprise is currently needed if you want to use the prebuilt log
> shipping or clustering, or more than 2 CPUs or more than 4 GB RAM.  I
> think you also need Enterprise for indexed views (what Oracle calls
> materialized views).  If you want log shipping on Standard you can RYO.
> I'm using Standard on all my current databases, and it's about 1/4 the
> cost.
>
> For 2005 they are coming out with another level I forget the name of
> that's between Standard and Enterprise but is only slightly more
> expensive than the current Standard (I think list is $6K vs $5K for the
> current Standard), it has failover clustering, up to I think 4 CPUs, and
> as much RAM as your O/S allows.
>
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:36:42 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote in message
> :
>
>>So it wouldn't make sense here...
>>
>>- Bob Comer
>>
>>
>>
>>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>>news:nr23b1l8rm1mrth1jm9tvj5mc6tvu34tpv{at}4ax.com...
>>> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:22:38 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>> As for per-user, I can't imagine going per-user on a production
>>>>> database, per-CPU gets cheaper at a pretty low number of users.
>>>>
>>>>Just what is that pretty low number of users?
>>>
>>> Looks like just under 100, based on this:
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/default.asp
>>>
>>> Enterprise is $19128 per processor.
>>>
>>> Per server + user CAL price is $6382 + $146/user, so
>>>
>>> (19128 - 6382)/146 = 87
>>>
>>
>

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