Microsoft is Relaxing License Restrictions for Easier Virtualization Environments
Microsoft recently announced that starting September 1, 2008 “…customers will be able to move any of 41 Microsoft server applications between servers within a server farm as often as necessary without paying additional licensing fees, and they can take advantage of expanded specialized technical support.” This licensing change makes it possible to reassign licenses from one server to another within a server farm as frequently as needed. Prior to this change, customers only had 90 days to reassign licenses (which was a legal hurdle to virtualization). There are currently 41 server applications covered under these new licensing terms including “…Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise edition, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Standard and Enterprise editions, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Enterprise and Professional editions, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft System Center products.” Not only is this legal now, Microsoft also is officially supporting this by expanding technical support. To add to that, Microsoft is also launching worldwide events to help customers get virtual. Talk about getting on the virtualization band-wagon! Way to go Microsoft.
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