Promotional Version Legal?

26 Apr 2006 3:55 PM

M Pursley

I have a promotional set of three microsoft titles of software (Ready to
Launch) which were handed out at a Microsoft event. One of these is MS
SQL Server 2005 Standard with 1 CAL. I don't find anything in the EULA,
so is it legal to install, register and use this promo version in a
business environment? I called Microsoft. The person I spoke to said
they should have an answer by tomorrow... Would it have any limitations
(for example, I need to add-on 10 CAL's..)? Thanks for any suggestions.

26 Apr 2006 8:41 PM

Roger Wolter[MSFT]

Yes you should be able to use it in a production environment as long as your
production environment has only one named user.

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"M Pursley" <mpursley***@netscape.net> wrote in message
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>I have a promotional set of three microsoft titles of software (Ready to
>Launch) which were handed out at a Microsoft event. One of these is MS SQL
>Server 2005 Standard with 1 CAL. I don't find anything in the EULA, so is
>it legal to install, register and use this promo version in a business
>environment? I called Microsoft. The person I spoke to said they should
>have an answer by tomorrow... Would it have any limitations (for example, I
>need to add-on 10 CAL's..)? Thanks for any suggestions.

27 Apr 2006 1:44 PM

M Pursley

Roger Wolter[MSFT] wrote:

> Yes you should be able to use it in a production environment as long as your
> production environment has only one named user.
>

Oh... does that mean even if I buy additional CALs (I need 10) this
"promo" version won't accept them?

27 Apr 2006 2:09 PM

Roger Wolter[MSFT]

No, you can buy more CAL's and add them to this license.

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"M Pursley" <mpursley***@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> Roger Wolter[MSFT] wrote:
>> Yes you should be able to use it in a production environment as long as
>> your production environment has only one named user.
>>
>
> Oh... does that mean even if I buy additional CALs (I need 10) this
> "promo" version won't accept them?