Onderwerp: "MS SQL Express" hosting

Zou het toegestaan zijn voor een ISP/webhoster om "MS SQL Express" (vers van de pers) in te zetten voor zijn/haar klanten?
Uiteraard niet als er commercieel belang achter schuilt; heel begrijpenlijk. Maar wat bijvoorbeeld voor verenigingen, persoonlijke websites en andere niet commeciele doeleinden? Het doel van de SQL Express editie volgens Micro$oft:

Target Scenarios
SQL Server Express was developed with two distinct uses in mind. The first is as a server product, especially as a Web server or a database server. The second is as a local client data store where the application data access does not depend on the network. Ease of use and simplicity are key design goals.

The three main usage scenarios for SQL Server Express are:

Non-professional developers building Web applications
ISVs redistributing SQL Server Express as a low-end server or client data store
Hobbyists building basic client/server applications
SQL Server Express provides an easy-to-use and reliable database platform that is "feature-rich" to cover these scenarios. Special consideration is given to the ease and reliability of setup and deployment to make it easy for ISVs to use and redistribute

Zijn er bijvoorbeeld ISP's die dit aanbieden?

Zie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server

A stripped-down version of Microsoft SQL Server known as MSDE (Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine) is distributed with products such as Visual Studio, Visual FoxPro, Microsoft Access, MS Web Matrix, and other products. MSDE has some restrictions: a limit of 2 GB databases, and it comes with no tools to administer it. It also has a workload governor which reduces its speed once you exceed 8 concurrent workloads on the engine.

Microsoft recently announced the successor to MSDE, dubbed SQL Server Express. Similar to MSDE, SQL Express includes all the core functionality of SQL Server but places restrictions on the scale of databases. It will only utilize a single CPU, 1 GB of RAM, and imposes a maximum size of 4 GB on databases. SQL Express also doesn't include enterprise features such as Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Data Transformation Services, and Notification Services. Unlike MSDE, SQL Express includes a management console, called SQL Server Express Manager. A beta version of SQL Server Express is now available for download.

En:

Simple Pricing and Licensing
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Always free to obtain and use
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Royalty free redistribution (registration required)

Bron: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/express/default.mspx

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Zou het toegestaan zijn voor een ISP/webhoster om "MS SQL Express" (vers van de pers) in te zetten voor zijn/haar klanten

Met de juiste licenses mag dat altijd. Maar zou dit wel van te voren controleren bij MicroSoft (welke license nodig is).

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Zijn er bijvoorbeeld ISP's die dit aanbieden? [/B]

Ja, inmiddels één in Nederland gevonden : Prioserve.net

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