title: Microsoft (SQL) server licensing
body: <p>We're planning a browser application (xbap) which is going to talk to WCF services. These WCF services get information from a SQL database. Each of our clients has his own database on this server. The clients need to get reports from SQL Reporting Services. A client can have multiple instances of this application running.</p>
  
  <p>How does this work with licensing? We thought of starting off with 1 server which has MSSQL and IIS running on windows server (although I might be smart separating these from the start). So that would be 1 license for Server 2008 and 1 for SQL2008? With an addition for each user? Then, is every client a user or every employee of our clients? Is this the same for the reporting services or is this a part of SQL2008? I'm confused...</p>
  
  <p><strong>Additional:</strong>
  I've heard from this company that got billed for about $100.000 because they were using reporting services with the wrong license. Their web application was described as a normal application because they used reporting services. We're trying to prevent that.</p>