I thought I'd throw this one out there, because we're in the middle of a voluntary "audit" (as in, we called them and they got a partner involved because we KNOW our licensing is fubar'd), and some of ...

We're building a few VMware ESX servers and I'm looking at the best way to license windows and perhaps save some money.<BR><BR>It looks like the Enterprise Edition will allow us 1 physical and/or 4 ...

When a company has 500,000 enterprise customers that are paying for perpetual licenses and support on systems software – this is an absolutely enormous base by corporate standards, and a retro ...

In a press conference Tuesday at VMware Partner Exchange, CEO Paul Maritz said future adjustments to its product licensing terms are coming as VMware moves toward a consumption-based licensing model.

Microsoft revved up its cloud marketing message on Monday after VMware made some licensing changes in July. The spat, largely focused on the costs of tapping virtualization infrastructure, is nothing ...

Microsoft has always positioned Hyper-V to be a less expensive alternative to VMware. Now the software giant says that with VMware’s new VRAM-based pricing, it calculates a private cloud built on ...

VMware recently announced a change to its software licensing model that caps the number of cores supported in the CPU, effective April 2, 2020. Why did VMware do this? What is the real impact to IT?

Microsoft revved up its cloud marketing message on Monday with the release of a whitepaper titled "Microsoft Private Cloud: A Comparative Look at Functionality, Benefits and Economics." The whitepaper ...