SQL Licensing???

[Stevie]

My company uses VB with Access or just straight Access for most of its in house projects are the moment, but I have been asked to look into the cost of SQL Server.

Can anybody out there explain to me how the licensing works with SQL Server, and roughly how much it would cost.

From what I can gather you could have say 6 different databases running on SQL Server, each with say 20 users. If all those users were the same 20, would that need 120 licenses?

[JHausmann]

Buy 20 seats. Your license will be based on the maximum number of active users (20) at one time. When user 21 shows up, s/he'll have to wait for user (1-20) to logoff before s/he can connect to the database.

[Stevie]

Is there such a thing a some kind of site license, which would support an unlimited number of users?

[JHausmann]

Throw enough money at Microsoft and anything's possible. Why would you care? The most amount of seats you want will be the most amount of concurrent _users_ you're likely to have at any one point in time...