Question : sql server 2005 standard vs enterprise

Hi,
  If I have 75 Locations in different citys (all on same WAN) with 5-10 people at each site all wanting to hit the same database (About 1 Gigabyte in size with maybe 10 tables in it).  for a 9-5M-F business, is there any advantage to getting SQL Server Enterprise over SQL Server Standard, or would I just be overpaying for Enterprise.
  The application uses application level sql logins, so no matter how many users, the db sees everyone as either the same user unless we specify a different application login on the client program at each site (Then the db would see 75 different users).

each location will have a couple of PC's and possibly a couple of PocketPC's so I also have to decide between processor licensing, device licensing, or user licensing.

  Not sure which one to recommend (Standard vs Enterprise, and processor vs user vs device licensing) for the project.
Thanks

Answer : sql server 2005 standard vs enterprise

I would make the Enterprise vs Standard SQL server decision based on the complexity of your need using this chart:

http://www.microsoft.com/Sqlserver/2005/en/us/compare-features.aspx

As you can see, with a database your size you probably won't gain a lot going to Enterprise.

Now where you may see the bottleneck is how many concurrent users and amount of querying being done to determine the processing power and memory needed by the underlying server.  That may drive you to question on Windows OS side:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_server_2003

As far as the user versus processor licensing, I think I did the analysis once and the per CAL to processor break even point was somewhere around 25 or 50 if I am not mistaken, but I would look at it from that perspective.  Especially after determining if your server will have multiple processors as you have to license each physical.  One think there is logical doesn't count, so I for example have a Quad Core box but only a single processor based license.

If the $$ make sense, then the processor is always better as it gives you room to grow without extra cost.

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