[Info-vax] OpenVMS I64 V8.1 "Evaluation Release"?

[Rich Jordan]

On Mar 21, 5:23 am, Paul Sture <p... at sture.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:21:08 +0100, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
> > Many desktop computers are being sold now with 8G of RAM and 4G has been
> > standard for awhile and is now considered the absolute low end of the
> > high performance desktop range.
>
> Very true.  Developers who want to run multiple virtual machines and/or
> memory hungry apps such as Microsoft SQL Server are nowadays stuffing
> their systems with as much RAM as they will take. 16 GB or more seems to
> be the current target.
>
> --
> Paul Sture

We recently installed a Proliant with 256GB RAM and four 10 core
processors at a customer site for SQL server.

MS has changed SQL Server Enterprise into a 'premium product' starting
later this year; licensing costs and restrictions are going to be like
full Oracle mode.  Order of magnitude more expensive than now, and
unconditionally licensed to the full capabilities of the PHYSICAL
server it is installed on, NOT the VM it might be running under.  So
the above system will not be able to license SQL server for up to 20
cores and 128GB RAM; MS charges for the WHOLE box whether or not SQL
server will ever use it.

Quite a racket.  And I bet folks are just lining up to pay it.