> I wonder if they get any leeway on licensing for the PR?
For production? No. Development machines? They used to.
The best you can hope for these days as a showcase ISV/startup is more direct access to devs, and you'll probably only get that if you are proofing a new system of theirs. Remember, the most likely gospel is that Microsoft is expensive to run - so dropping the licensing cost "for PR" is actually a bad idea.
> > I wonder if they get any leeway on licensing for the PR?
> For production? No. Development machines? They used to.
Development licensing for SQL Server (and most of MS's products) is done through the MSDN program, and it's dirt cheap, and doesn't require any leeway. Anybody can buy MSDN licensing.
For production, everything is negotiable. It's not unusual to get special SQL Server licensing deals when you buy in bulk.
(That's me walking the line between what I can say publicly, and what I can't.)
For production? No. Development machines? They used to.
The best you can hope for these days as a showcase ISV/startup is more direct access to devs, and you'll probably only get that if you are proofing a new system of theirs. Remember, the most likely gospel is that Microsoft is expensive to run - so dropping the licensing cost "for PR" is actually a bad idea.