All,
Question regarding BizTalk licensing:
I work for an ISV, and we'll be installing our application onto our clients' hardware, and using VPN connections / RDP to configure and administer. We'll have a Production environment (physical), a UAT environment (physical hardware capable of perf testing)
and "Development" VMs.
We won't be doing any software development in UAT/Dev (or Prod of course), rather, we'll be using built-in configuration forms in our app to customize our application to the client's specific needs.
Our .NET/web-based app requires BizTalk Enterprise (for scaleout...maybe for other reasons as well). We'd like to use Developer edition in UAT & Test, but I'm a bit confused on how that works. As I understand it, Developer licensing is on a user-by-user
basis (i.e. a CAL or similar concept) whereas Standard & Enterprise can be licensed on a server (processor?) basis.
However, I'm actually a SQL DBA, and I may be projecting my SQL worldview onto BizTalk licensing. (i.e. this SQL PDF indicates Developer is user-by-user:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ptsaustria/archive/2011/05/05/sql-server-2008-r2-licensing-quick-reference-guide-update-version-1-1.aspx)
These links are interesting, but don't exactly answer my specific question:
http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/pricing-licensing-faq.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/developer.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/briefs/virtual-licensing.aspx
