Microsoft plans to alter its per-processor licensing model at the start of April in a way that should provide relief for customers who run its software on partitioned servers, a Microsoft executive confirmed Monday.
The change could lead to significant cost savings for customers who use partitioning to segregate applications running on a single multiprocessor server, said Alvin Park, an analyst with Gartner. Some of those customers have complained that Microsoft's current pricing system requires them to pay a license fee for each processor on their server even though the software may not actually be running on all of those processors, Park said.
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