> They basically did an end-run around the $10k SQL Server license.
Could you elaborate on that? I have utterly no idea what it means based on that post, and Microsoft's semi-functional site is not enlightening me, either.
It is a little more complicated than that. The bizspark program lets you continue using the software you have installed without buying the licenses at the end of the program - as long as your use falls within certain parameters. Namely, this "gift" is based off of something like 2 windows standard servers and 1 SQL standard server. We are way beyond that and will have to pay for our licensing at the end of the program. But for a lot of startups that haven't gotten our funding it is a great boon.
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They basically did an end-run around the $10k SQL Server license.
Could you elaborate on that? I have utterly no idea what it means based on that post, and Microsoft's semi-functional site is not enlightening me, either.
That's not so much an end-run as a delay, though, IMO.
What happens if you are a year in development and then the service is not profitable yet after two years post-launch?
Does the SQL server just stop running?