Putting a price on a virtual computer

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As if licensing wasn't confusing enough, with literally dozens of conflicting and often unenforceable rules, now they want to try to license ?virtual? software. Don?t any of these companies realize that when they create completely unenforceable licensing rules it is only a short time before everybody knows they can do XYZ and it is the IT person who looks like a crook trying to insist they need to buy more licenses to do XYZ when it will work if you just do it without spending the money.

With multi-core and virtual processors, it is only a matter of time before a high performance workstation will have 8 way processing. I can almost see the college level math problem now: ?You are running one physical workstation with 8 way processing and 4 gigs of RAM, you have 6 virtual PCs each with 1 or 2 processors (real or virtual) and up to a gig of memory per virtual PC how many operating system licenses do you need??

This kind of convoluted licensing was busy work for bean counters in an enterprise environment, but it is going to be a total nightmare when it appears at the small business or desktop level.

Bjorn A Freeman

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