[AccessD] New SQL Server license scheme is RADICALLLY more expensive

Mark Simms marksimms at verizon.net
Mon Nov 14 21:22:19 CST 2011


John - I really hear this stuff and wonder if MSFT isn't brain-dead sometimes 
;)
I doubt seriously that the licensing for a <50 person corp is NOT negotiable.
MSFT is just testing the waters with that kind of licensing fee IMHO.

> I want to discuss this.  My client just brought up an 8 core AMD server
> with 16 gigs of ram, just in
> time to hear about MS deciding that $8K / core is a fair license price.
> I don't think that $64K
> for a CPU license is at all fair.





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