Calculating how many Microsoft licenses you need in your virtualization infrastructure is not an easy task. Windows edition (Standard, Enterprise or Datacenter) can severely impact on final price and opportunity to grow. And back-end servers like SQL Server are part of this equation too.
To simplify this hard task Microsoft released a license calculator in January 2007, providing a simplified system to compare costs in three different scenarios where you are implementing different Windows editions.
After just 5 months Microsoft is ready to launch the second version of this tool, still available for free as an online application, with a completely revamped approach.
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