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Title: SME Licensing
Post by: EmyrB on August 20, 2008, 11:09:45 AM
Hi All,

I have been searching the wiki and these forums, but I cannot find anything on SME Server's licensing terms. I have a customer who is interested in cutting the cost of his IT. I can get good quality server hardware quite cheaply for him, but the cost of Microsoft server software is what is crippling him.

Basically, the customer has 20 users that need to be catered for. I have used SME Server in the past but usually for less than 5 users, so I was wondering if SME is like Clark Connect server where the community edition only supports up to 10 users, any more and you need to pay. Is this the same with SME Server?

Cheers in advance

EmyrB
Title: Re: SME Licensing
Post by: Jáder on August 20, 2008, 12:09:50 PM
Hi

No! SME is free for any amount of users... just limited by your hardware.
No gotchas here... just a STRONG community driven software!

Jáder
Title: Re: SME Licensing
Post by: NoTo on August 20, 2008, 12:11:51 PM
Go into Server-Manager, click on support and licensing.

You won't have any issues with number of users 8)
Title: Re: SME Licensing
Post by: EmyrB on August 20, 2008, 01:15:41 PM
Hey thanks guys, that information fills me up with a warm glow  8-)

Cheers

EmyrB
Title: Re: SME Licensing
Post by: byte on August 20, 2008, 08:15:52 PM
Quote from: jader on August 20, 2008, 12:09:50 PM
No! SME is free for any amount of users... just limited by your hardware.
No gotchas here... just a STRONG community driven software!

Welcome to SME Server, the leading Linux distribution for small and medium enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc., a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.

SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.

As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further development.

Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. Please click here to view detailed support, warranty and licensing information.
Title: Re: SME Licensing
Post by: CharlieBrady on August 20, 2008, 09:10:04 PM
Quote from: byte on August 20, 2008, 08:15:52 PM
SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc., a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.

Not really. SME Server is brought to you by the small number of developers who make it, plus their sponsors (when they occasionally have them), plus SME Server, Inc, which helps to keep the contribs.org webserver running, plus the many mirror sites around the world.
Title: Re: SME Licensing
Post by: byte on August 20, 2008, 10:24:27 PM
Quote from: CharlieBrady on August 20, 2008, 09:10:04 PM
Not really. SME Server is brought to you by the small number of developers who make it, plus their sponsors (when they occasionally have them), plus SME Server, Inc, which helps to keep the contribs.org webserver running, plus the many mirror sites around the world.

You know that... I know that... I was quoting off the server-manager welcome screen  :lol:
Title: Re: SME Licensing
Post by: Normando on August 21, 2008, 01:34:53 AM
Quote from: CharlieBrady on August 20, 2008, 09:10:04 PM
Not really. SME Server is brought to you by the small number of developers who make it, plus their sponsors (when they occasionally have them), plus SME Server, Inc, which helps to keep the contribs.org webserver running, plus the many mirror sites around the world.
and plus comnunity...?