Server 2008 CAL with Server 2008 R2?

Am I reading the above link correctly, if I have Server 2008 CAL's I can use
these with Server 2008 R2?

Thanks in advance, Andrew.

 

"Andrew Staley" <no@reply.com> wrote in message
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> Am I reading the above link correctly, if I have Server 2008 CAL's I can
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Microsoft licensing is usually pretty obscure, but that looks pretty
straight forward to me! I can't see how you can can interpret it any other
way. If you can't buy 2008 R2 CALs, you don't have any other option.

 

It completely throw me, I'm in the process of setting up 3 new servers and
we had gone to our supplier to get Server 2008 Ent under the Open Licence
agreement, I received an email yesterday with the activation details and
everything was listed as Server 2008 R2. Which could have been a problem as
we currently have Server 2008 CAL's, therefore I was expecting to be stung
with having to replace them with 2008 R2 CAL's.

Such a pleasant surprise.

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>> Am I reading the above link correctly, if I have Server 2008 CAL's I can
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> Microsoft licensing is usually pretty obscure, but that looks pretty
> straight forward to me! I can't see how you can can interpret it any other
> way. If you can't buy 2008 R2 CALs, you don't have any other option.
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