There was a whitepaper that Microsoft put out about a year ago, and was recently reposted by Tony Rogerson and the DatabaseWeekly.com, and I thought it was a pretty cool paper myself, one which I hadn’t seen by the way, so I thought that I would post it was well. Download it – I think it’s a pretty cool paper.
A few takeways on the paper that I thought were interesting, here are my cliff notes:
- Microsoft has a simple multicore licensing policy, in which it reduces licensing costs by physical processors licensing, not cores
- Microsoft does not tie user licensing with number of processors like those other guys do
- Microsoft does not require customers to pay licensing on the standby server. The other guys apparently bend you over on these.
- Damn
- Double damn
Microsoft states that they don’t make any money on editions other than Enterprise (not in this paper, I know this for a fact so just trust me here), but geezsh it shows Standard Edition costs between $7000-$18000 per CPU or per core. So they can’t make any money on that price? They want everyone to be on Enterprise Edition, even if they’re not serving up enterprise data; Enterprise by the way is, in their scenario, $27000 to $55000 per CPU or core. Damn that’s expensive, but those other guys are 3X that cost.
Anyway, just rambling here. Go check out the download. Good read.
Lee
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I can honestly say that I’ve never run a bootleg…never mind.
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