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Re: [LUG] how come the list is quiet this week

 

On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:15:05 +0100
Dave Foxcroft wrote:

> On 16/07/2010 10:56, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Dave Foxcroft wrote:
> >
> >> On 16/07/2010 09:06, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> They tell me 3CX needs an IIS server to work under too (for more 
> >>> than a trivial installation) - and when you put the licensing
> >>> costs of that together with everything else, it costs more than
> >>> one of my dedicated PBXs... But that's bizarely acceptable for
> >>> some people...
> >>>
> >> IIS Server - Doesn't that come as part of  the standard MS Server
> >> OS? 
> >> - just a case of selecting/installing it - much like Apache is 
> >> available to install in Linux distros.
> >>
> >> I may well be wrong but I don't think there is any need for any
> >> extra licence to run IIS.
> >
> > I really don't know - nor do I care.
> Fair enough..... :-)
> > I just know that the person I was talking to (who installs Windows 
> > servers for a living) said it needed some additional licenses for a 
> > bigger system than the demo he was doing.
> >
> > Gordon
> >
> I guess the guy knows what is needed and knows his way through the MS 
> licencing minefield.
> 
> Dave

That is not always the case.  There are plenty of people around who
merely buy more licenses [for xyz software] because they believe it to
be necessary without necessarily actually checking.

Grant.

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