Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

From: Isaac Blank <izblank_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 2000/03/02
Message-ID: <38beddc7.529456918@news.nanospace.com>#1/1

On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 21:04:30 GMT, Tony Toews <ttoews_at_telusplanet.net> wrote:

>rshwake_at_rsxtech.atww.org (Raymond N Shwake) wrote:
>
>> And of course, that means the customer has purchased *twelve*
>>licenses for Win 2000 Advanced Server, not to mention the associated
>>*client* licenses, and will have to maintain twelve servers.
>
>Following the URL to the Executive Summary shows that that price includes 8 licenses
>(I think Casper got 12 systems when it should've been 8. Actually there were 8
>systems each with 12 CPUs.) for SQL Server Enterprise at $29K each and Windows 2000
>Advanced Server at $4K each. Under client software is 24 license for Windows 2000
>Server at $809 which doesn't make any sense to me.
>
>No idea where the Client Access License are included. Does the licensing for SQL
>Server Enterprise include an unlimited number of CALs?
At this price ($29K) you can get unlimited number of CALs in per server mode - at least for MSSQL 7:
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/productinfo/pricing.htm Received on Thu Mar 02 2000 - 00:00:00 CST