OfficeWriter Solves
Excel & Word Licensing Issues
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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.
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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.
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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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