Licensing MSSQL Server 2012

Question

Microsoft

Welcome all.
I want to share information, if you don't already know.
Today I talked at a conference with a licensing employee from MS and he told me how the new MSSQL 2012 is licensed.
For me, it was a shock, because. now there will be no licenses for the processor (cpu), but licenses for the CORE (core). The price of a license for the core will be approximately - the cost of an MSSQL 2008 processor license divided by 4.
Why by 4? And hz, they probably think that there are no more 6 core processors.
There are also radical changes in MSSQL licensing, if you are interested, I can post a presentation as soon as it is given to me from the conference.

Colleagues, what do you think about it?

Answer 1

It's time to move on to Linux with the MS licensing policy.
This is not a holivar - I myself have spent more than 12 years on MS products and still have to work. But as a database, I'm already thinking about migrating to PostgreSql & MongoDB.

Answer 2

From the outside, this variation looks more logical, more flexible. But for those who have a processor with a number of cores > 4, they should be upset and vice versa ...

Answer 3

What about hyperthreading?

Answer 4

My opinion is that M$ wants to drive us into the clouds or into virtual machines.
Many Cloud providers set themselves a feature that the virtual machine saw cores, not processors. Today, for the sake of interest, I went to the machine of a friend who ordered a virtual server with 2 cores and what I saw there is 2 processors, even in the task manager.
Although this is a sad fact in my case - the rejection of processors, M$ left licensing by user.

Answer 5

got a presentation.
docs.google.com/open?id=14DmA9_p1SONYG852Fp8gQuVlutIGtDiFIQQaw7k7zbCPFyACf0SfZI98n3nT