Licensing

Complete details of SSRS licensing can be found on the Microsoft licensing website at http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/default.mspx and in the following document http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/3/7/e37e542f-f90c-4d5f-864c-3f428d5add5e/SQL2005_Licensing.doc.

In a " nutshell ," a Server license (for Workgroup, Standard, or Enterprise editions) is required for every operating system environment on which that edition of SQL Server software or any of its components (for example, Reporting Services) is running.

This means that a company does not have to buy a separate license if SSRS is installed with SQL Server 2005 together on a single computer. For scale-out (web farm) deployments, each web server that runs Report Server would have to have a SQL Server license.