GS wrote:

GS wrote:

Excel must be purchased for personal use and/or volume licensed for
corporate use.

I've just read through the Excel EULA. See:

http://download.microsoft.com/Docume...51bcbc7423.pdf

Nowhere does it state a /single/ retail licence cannot be use for
commercial purpose. In a turnkey setup, no one would be bundling in a
Home and Student, military, NFR, or CANEX version of Excel or in use for
in a software hosting scenario and those are the only ones where
commercial use is probhited. You inferred that a business would need a
volume license to use Excel. Not according to Microsoft's EULA.

No, I did not infer that! See below...

Please indicate where you cite that Excel must be purchases as a volume
license for commercial use, and that a retail license is invalid for
commercial use.

I did not state it MUST be purchased as a volume license; - just saying
volume licenses are available (for any use for that matter). Most IT pros
in large corporations usually prefer volume licenses for whatever MSO
editions they run throughout their networks.

But since we got into talking about POS, those are single workstations
(where more than one may be used and communicate with each other), seems
a volume licensing would be throwing away money for unused licenses.
Guess that depends on the size of the store; i.e., mom-n-pop restaurant
or bar versus Walmart.

I could see a mom-n-pop restaurant using PC-based software, but most use
industry standard systems where the cash register is networked with a mainframe
along with the management PC(s). I've only ever made PC-based POS apps for
self-employed service contractors for making quotes, invoicing, or doing
detailed job costing. A simple bookkeeping module is usually included for
tracking expenses, income, taxes, P&L, customers, vendors, and bank ledger[s].

I'm a strong advocate for using Excel for everything because it's so flexible
and can dupe anything that Word or PowerPoint can do (albeit not as easily for
the latter!).

--
Garry

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