Per-core licences coming to Windows Server and System Center 2016 (open that wallet wider please)

The Register ^ | Dec 4, 2015 | Simon Sharwood

[dayglored]

One for the System Admins (like me) who manage farms of Windows Servers.

[dayglored]

Windows Server 2016, served up by the core ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[Paladin2]

Linux rulz......

[Rebelbase]

+++++++++++++++++++++1!

[Paladin2]

LOL, M$ Droolz...

[dayglored]

I have to blink and pinch myself every time I am forced to purchase more freakin' Windows CALs...

Unbelievable.

[Paladin2]

Apparently Ballmer’s team could use a larger budget....

[StormEye]

Will these cost increases drive more organizations to switch to Linux?
How does Red Hat for instance, charge it's customers for enterprise Linux installations?

[miliantnutcase]

My MS license true up is in March. Can’t wait... We get higher costs every year. Everyone wants iPads and mobile devices, well guess MS charges us for these devices because they touch either an exchange server or a SQL server in some way.

[proxy_user]

Red Hat charges for support. Linux is free to use, but big enterprise users like to have tech support. You would think they would just have employees who know what they’re doing.

[dayglored]

> Will these cost increases drive more organizations to switch to Linux? How does Red Hat for instance, charge it's customers for enterprise Linux installations?

Well, "RedHat" is free -- entirely -- if you use the CentOS distro and rely on the community for knowledge base and forum help. It's the identical code as RHEL.

I honestly don't know these days what RedHat's price schedule is for their installation and support. Someone else will doubtless chime in...

[smokingfrog]

4 cores should be the standard. It’s not like you’re buying an OS for each core on the same server.

[dayglored]

> ...big enterprise users like to have tech support. You would think they would just have employees who know what they're doing.

That's what we do, albeit a small enterprise.

[The KG9 Kid]

Golly, we’re still getting along okay with Win2008 R2 and MSSQL 2008.

But you’re telling me corporations are spending money on IT infrastructure again? You mean, actually buying new rack mounted server blades and migrating to new server OS versions?

Wow, wonder what that’s like. I’m pretty sure most of the planet is still using Office 2007.

[Secret Agent Man]

every announcement they make lately has made me cement my move away from them.

[tacticalogic]

One for the System Admins (like me) who manage farms of Windows Servers.

We bitch about it, but I think we all knew change was a constant when we sign on.

[dayglored]

> Golly, we're still getting along okay with Win2008 R2 and MSSQL 2008.

IMO that was the last version of Server I could use without puking. 2012 R2 grafted Metro and it makes me ill every time I have to manage the machines that have it.

> But you're telling me corporations are spending money on IT infrastructure again? You mean, actually buying new rack mounted server blades and migrating to new server OS versions?

It's a brand new world out there!!

> Wow, wonder what that's like. I'm pretty sure most of the planet is still using Office 2007.

Office 2003 for me, with the 2007 Compatibility Pack so I can read/write the zipped XML file formats. Seriously. I just today installed 2003 with the pack on a brand-fresh Windows 10 VM (hosted on my Linux workstation) so I have something that opens Word Docx correctly.

Yeah, I know about LibreOffice and OpenOffice, and I run those too. But some days I need the real thing because of what people send me. arrrrrgh.

[zeugma]

Redhat licensing is pretty steep as well, at least in my humble opinion. However, for non-prod servers you can always use CentOS, which is the same thing with cosmetic changes minus support. You can save a =lot= of money that way.

There are also more free alternatives, but in a production environment, you really want some kind of support.

[roamer_1]

If it weren’t for exchange...

[dayglored]

> We bitch about it, but I think we all knew change was a constant when we sign on.

TRUE THAT.