I have a potential customer who has a server , and will be running a distributed application on each of the reps laptops.
There are about 15 reps, who will be running the application , disconnected, and then uploading data to the server
Sql express is not an option as Database sze is over 4 Gigs.

Does anybody know the licensing situaution in this case.... e.g. Do I need to purchase 15 server licenses at about $1800 each for each of the Reps laptops ?

I had a look at the MS pricing site but it gave no example of this situation

I also forgot to mention that I checked into licensing MySQL Embedded DB and found that it was cost prohibitive.  It was about $20,000 upfront just to get 100 licenses.  The price per license starts dropping after that but they don't offer any pay per license as you go along so that killed it for me.

If you distribute it with a commercial application you have to have a license.  If you give your application away free then there is no problem.

Other than that though MySQL Embedded DB looked very good but I'm going to give VistaDB a try mainly for financial reasons.  I'm hoping others will jump on VistaDB too once I start using it the first week in May.

VistaDB would for well without SF too of course but I want to us SF for everything if possible.

Russ Brown (Using C#2010/SQL Server 2008)