SQL Server licensing

Follow-up question:

I talked to my CAM and he gave me some information regarding SQL Server Licensing. It seems like the most cost effective route for our organization is going to be the server-license + CALs, rather than the core-based licensing (we only have 50 Epicor users, but just built a 20-core Epicor server).

My CAM told me that, separate from the up-front software purchases, there will be annual Epicor maintenance and annual Microsoft embedded maintenance. He was able to tell me that Epicor's annual maintenance would be roughly 20% of the up-front cost, but he didn't have any information on what the annual maintenance from Microsoft would be. I called Microsoft SQL support phone number and got transferred around a bit, but wasn't able to get an answer from them either.

Is there any info that you guys can provide?

Thanks,

Jay
Maybe someone can shed some light on this for me. I posted yesterday about the groups opinions of E9 v. E10. We are still debating that decision, but one of the questions is the cost of SQL Server licensing (since we are currently on a Progress DB) and, so far, we haven't been able to get a great answer. It looks like SQL Server is licensed on a per core basis. Should I understand this to mean that we need a license for each processor core on our Epicor server (so for our dual ten-core processors, we would need 20 SQL licenses)?

Also, what are the differences between the versions of SQL (Enterprise vs. Business Intelligence vs. Standard)?

Thanks for the help,

Jay


Talk to your CAM. You buy it for dirt cheap from Epicor. 

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On May 9, 2014, at 3:24 PM, "jepperson@... [vantage]" <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Maybe someone can shed some light on this for me. I posted yesterday about the groups opinions of E9 v. E10. We are still debating that decision, but one of the questions is the cost of SQL Server licensing (since we are currently on a Progress DB) and, so far, we haven't been able to get a great answer. It looks like SQL Server is licensed on a per core basis. Should I understand this to mean that we need a license for each processor core on our Epicor server (so for our dual ten-core processors, we would need 20 SQL licenses)?

Also, what are the differences between the versions of SQL (Enterprise vs. Business Intelligence vs. Standard)?

Thanks for the help,

Jay