MS Licensing - 3 windows machines, 30 users, how many CALs required?

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I'm in the middle of upgrading, and purchasing licensing for 3 of our Servers.

One will be a Windows Server 2008 machine, running SQL Server 2008. The other two machines will be domain controllers, both running Windows 2003.

Our organisation has 30 Users.

I understand (through our reseller) that a Windows 2008 licence gives "downgrade" rights to use 2003.

Realistically, for the above setup of 3 machines, will I just need one set of 30 CALs for 2008?

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