Re: Microsoft CAL license needed to install Security Software

[Ansgar Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2010-09-27 Florian Rommel wrote:
> This is correct. Cals are needed if you access any kind of service
> hosted within a windows server platform. Consider it like a bubble
> within a bubble. The outer bubble is windows server and the innwr the
> 3rd party software. While they have nothing linking them, you still
> need to go through the outer shell.
> I do think that you chould purchase a corecal for all clients. This
> covers any windows server and windows based services.

Pretty nice business model, ain't it? First you pay for a server, and
then you pay *again* so you can actually use the server that you already
paid for.

It never ceases to amaze me how customers put up with that.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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