Licensing WSS in an Extranet

Posted on Jun 10th 2008 at 10:07pm under Uncategorized by admin

Windows SharePoint Services are often marketed as free. But as we all know, there is no such thing as a free lunch: Just because you have an W2k3 license, does not mean you have sufficient client access licenses (CALs) for your customers and partners. And what about the CALs for your SQL Server?

Dan Holme tries to shed some light in the complexity of licensing SharePoint in Extranet scenarios in this article: http://www.officesharepointpro.com/content/1925/licensing-windows-sharepoint-services-.aspx