Re:Isn't this an EULA violation? (Score 1)

But based on his requirements he's unlikely to need enterprise edition for quite a while.

The standard edition of MSSQL2005 support things like failover clustering and is pretty cheap when compared to oracle 10g standard (around $6k i think), even workgroup could be suitable.

In our environment our single mssql systems dba support approximately 120 databases across around 30 boxes including some clustered, multiple replication models etc.