Good day!
I've ran into a serious discussion on SQL server licensing. Even from Microsoft I'm getting controversal answers.
In our organization, we have ISA server 2004 installation acting as a proxy server at our corporate network. Also, we have SQL server 2000 standard installation on the same server; it is used for storing access logs (approx. 15Gb/monthly). An important point is that no user content is stored in the SQL database, no web-cache, only access logs generated by the ISA server.
Now I have two controversal opinions on the licensing. Some people say that the log entries are generated by the users; so, ISA server acts as a "multiplexing device" and therefore we need SQL user CALs for all of our employees who are accessing internet via that ISA server. Others say that as far as the logs are generated by the ISA server itself, it is not "user data", and so far we need only 1 device CAL for the SQL server connection.
At least, they all agree that if SQL server stores turnstile entries, you don't need a license for everyone who passes it.
Would you please help to find out the apropriate licensing scheme?