From: Ellen K. 

I don't think you should count the CALs.  Because typically you'll have
multiple servers and the users talk to all of them.  And if we're comparing
SQL Server vs Oracle, anyway the O/S shouldn't be counted... if you go with
Oracle you still have to pay for your O/S.  Oracle Enterprise on the
per-user license is $800 per user.

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:27:32 -0500, John Cuccia 
wrote in message :

>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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