Micro$oft Announce Windows Server 2008 pricing models
In anticipation of the major marketing machine and hype engine gearing up for next years Windows 2008 launch, MickeyMouseSoft
have announced a plethora of versions and licences designed entirely to confuse you …
There will be ELEVEN versions of W2k8-Server
- Standard 32bit
- Standard 64bit
- Standard 64bit with Hyper-V support
- Enterprise 32bit
- Enterprise 64bit
- Enterprise 64bit with Hyper-V support
- Datacenter 32bit
- Datacenter 64bit
- Datacenter 64bit with Hyper-V support
- Web 32bit
- Database 64bit
The Hyper-V support is for virtualisation technologies, and is already a confusing area for licencing - to run a few windows VM’s on a Dual-Quadcore server currently needs about £450/month of Win2K3 licences - one per cpu, one per VM per core - so to run 3 VM’s each able to access all 8 cores requires a total of 26 licences @ £15/month each !!!
Microsoft also released the pricing list for the retail box versions, mostly averaging £2,500 a licence - watch out for the TV ads explaining how i’ll cure colonic cancer, be so easy even a feaus will be able to use it, and save you so much money over better open-source solutions that just by queuing up on launch day for 22 hours in he rain outside PC-Grotto, you’ll earn more money Donald Trump has ever seen…
