MSDN Licensing for a Microsoft Gold ISV Partner
We are currently a Microsoft Gold ISV partner and I have a question as to how the licensing works for the disks that we get as part of our partnership. Specifically the difference between development licenses and internal use licenses. The partner program guide identifes the internal use licenses very well, but are there different licenses for development use or are the internal use licenses to total of what is allocated.
The driving need behind the question is that in the MSDN packs we are sent we are given installs of all of the versions of for example SQL Server 2005. But in the partner guide is says we are allocated 2 SQL Server 2005 Enterprise edition licenses and 100 CALS. In this instance we do not need the software for internal use (to run our business, ie an ERP database) but we use it in our development and QA of the software we develop to insure compatability.
So in the development and test environment all we really need is 4 licenses of SQL Server with 1 CAL each. You can replace SQL Server with any of MS Server technologies server 2003, exchange server, they all apply the same way. Is there different licensing for this situation or are the total internal use licenses listed in the partner guide the total allocated licenses for development and internal use combined?
Thank you,
Dan
