>>I'm unsure what it means in the EULA (or at least what is up on the MS web site) to say that a development tool cannot be used in a production environment? Do you know what that is about? The EULA refers to all products, not just O/S's.
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>>Alan
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>Lets say that you are devloping a product that uses SQL server. So, you set up a SQL Server using the MDSN license. That is development work that you are doing on your server.
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>However, lets now say that you set up Tracker. Tracker is a product that allows you to enter the bugs and issues that you have found and it uses SQL Server as a data store. Well, since you aren't developing tracker, you are using it as a production ap... in other words it is software you use to run/perform your business which happens to be developing aps.
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>So, you can run the tracker database on the Development MSDN sql server. You need to have a production license for that.
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>At least, that is the way I read it.
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>The only exception to the MSDN license, to my understanding is the Office products. You can use it for general production business tasks.
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>BOb

I see. Not having the MSDN full EULA, it's hard to know. I saw that on the web site - that none of the products can be used in a production environment - and I couldn't figure out what that would mean in terms of say, Visual Studio. It almost seems meaningless, but I guess there is a lot more in the EULA that is not posted on the site that would clarify a lot of the questions.

Thanks

Alan