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OfficeWriter Solves Excel & Word Licensing Issues test drive officewriter
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OfficeWriter licensing is on a per-CPU or per-server basis. This means that there are
no per-user or run-time royalty costs associated with any version of OfficeWriter.
 
 
Microsoft Licensing Forbids Use of Excel & Word on the Server
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Microsoft Excel and Word on a Server: To use Excel and Word on a Web server, you must ensure that all of your end users have correct Excel and Word end-user licenses. This makes it impossible to use on a public Web server.

SoftArtisans OfficeWriter: OfficeWriter licensing is on a per-CPU or per-server basis (OfficeWriterSE and all developer versions). This means that there are no per-user or run-time royalty costs associated with any version of OfficeWriter.
 
Microsoft Office licensing requires, not only that the Web server creating the reports has a license for Office, but you must also ensure that each client that is receiving the downloaded report have a valid license for Excel and Word on the local machine. Using the Excel or Word object to generate Office reporting on an intranet would require an enterprise level license for Microsoft Office. According to Microsoft Knowledge Base documentation, it is impossible to run the Office Web Components (OWC) on a Web sever that is accessible to users on the Internet or extranet because there is no way to guarantee that all users accessing the OWCs have valid Office 2000 licenses. See Microsoft Knowledge Base article, "Licensing the Office 2000 Web Components and Office Server Extensions (Q243006)".
 
*OfficeWriter licensing provides far greater flexibility and reduced overall costs for the generation and streaming of Excel reports and Word documents via the Web.
 
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