Microsoft will probably be creating adjustments to its Windows Server pricing in January 2011 that may impact organizations that are inside the commercial hosting company.As of January 1,
Windows 7 Activation, Microsoft is going to be chopping the cost of quite a few of its Windows Server SKUs — Server 2008 R2 Web, Standard and Enterprise — by 21 percent for those who purchase Windows Server via a Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA). At the same time, Microsoft is going to be raising the cost of one SKU — Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter — by 30 percent, come January one. The adjustments impact only those licensing via the SPLA and not any other volume-licensing agreement,
Microsoft Office 2007 Key, according to the organization.Microsoft is attributing the cost change to a desire to “better align SPLA prices with subscription prices.”Organization officials also are positioning the 30 percent price increase on Datacenter,
Office 2010 Activation, which includes unlimited virtualization rights, as a price decrease. Since the Datacenter SKU was launched, “server capacity in terms of cores has doubled, significantly increasing the performance value,” according to officials.More from an MSDN blog post explaining the changes:“Why is the price of Windows Server 2008 DataCenter (WS DC) for SPLA companies going up? Truth be told,
Office 2010 Download, it’s heading down. That’s not PR spin or some hocus-pocus math factoring Moore’s Law. The current cost for SPLA on WS DC is a limited promotional price. The original announced price was almost double. MSFT deferred the implementation of the full price in 2009 and again in 2010. As we have moved closer to January 1,
Office Professional 2007, 2011, feedback on the implementation of the full cost was as consistent as it was intense. That feedback compelled us to look at the non-promotional WS DC price again.“After a lot of math, a lot of feedback, and more math, we made a decision to lower the January 1st cost on DC. Specifically, instead of retiring the promotional cost and doubling the price, we have landed on a much more modest increase of 30% which we think will probably be welcome news to our service provider partners when considering the original plan.”Any service companies have any feedback — positive or not — on Microsoft;s planned pricing modifications?