Our company is doing medical software, and one hospital asked us to provide proof of genuine Microsoft license for the database used by our software, or a description of it.

Brother, you will not be talking about MSDE. I regret to tell you, you use this way, is to be authorized, focus please see the SQL SERVER paragraph, go to Microsoft. (add: MSSQL is the same, brother your company will not be the first time to deal with the public sector, you can use free when you develop, but not when these units use it. So you develop the software sold to these units must be listed, and the price must include the money of the genuine database, so that the other side to choose, hospitals such as the larger units recommended to buy by CPU license, your project should not be small, these costs are necessary to drop)

Some units already have a database, there is no licensing issues, then you can save this part of the money.

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