Microsoft To Cut Some Server Licensing Costs

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Microsoft To Cut Some Server Licensing Costs

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Microsoft plans on April 1 to cut licensing costs for enterprises that run some of their application server products on partitioned servers.

Microsoft will change the pricing model for the licensing of some of its server software products on multi-processor servers. The new licensing, to be announced April 1, will mean that enterprises pay for the number of processors actually in use, rather than the total number of processors per server, Microsoft said.

The licensing does not apply to Windows or Exchange servers, because those products are not currently licensed on a per-processor basis, Microsoft said. The licensing applies to all products licensed in the per-processor model, including SQL Server 2000, BizTalk Server 2000, and Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000.