[CS-FSLUG] NI: Microsoft takes stand on 'virtual' licensing

[Frank Bax]

At 04:53 PM 10/10/05, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>"Microsoft's new policy seeks to reconcile new technology and old licensing
>models. Starting in December, the company will calculate the cost of server
>software products by the number of running instances of that product on any
>given server, rather than the number of physical processors contained in that
>server.


Still basically the same model - cost of software package varies based on 
customers ability to pay.