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Thank you... this is good information.
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We are planning a low budget upgrade to WSS3.0 from SP2003 and WSS2.0 &nbsp;What additional &nbsp;licensing is required. &nbsp;We have 2003 Server ent licensing and all CALs for server 2003.<br />
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Also.. do we need extra CALs if we are using SQL 2005?
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We are planning a low budget upgrade to WSS3.0 from SP2003 and WSS2.0  What additional  licensing is required.  We have 2003 Server ent licensing and all CALs for server 2003.

Also.. do we need extra CALs if we are using SQL 2005?

what licensing is needed to run WSS3.0

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Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

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