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<p>Also, beware: it can sometimes be cheaper to buy new hardware with a WS OEM license than to up-license an existing system using a retail license. Right now it looks like a retail license of WS2019 Essentials only costs US$500, but there's a whole bunch of gotchas with the Essentials license. I can't find a good, single, reference that captures them all, sorry. Standard is where OEM pricing begins to really be useful.</p>
<p>Anything else requires signing an Open License agreement with an MS reseller. MS does NOT seem to want to make it easy for a medium-sized business to get on board the MS train... tiny-to-small shops is easy, and huge shops reasonably so, but the mid-market as always gets left behind.</p>
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<p>On 2020-03-30 14:10, Dan Keizer wrote:</p>
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<div>thanks Adam ... he had been told performance was better .. so - that's what i know ... i dont think the issue is multi-connections. tells me he needs to look at this better to find out the real goods.</div>
<div>will see where this ends up going :-)</div>
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<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 2:06 PM Adam Thompson <<a href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net">athompso@athompso.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p>Also, unless the PC has >32GB RAM or >4 CPU sockets (not cores), the bit about better using hardware resources is 100% B.S. and is a holdover from the XP days. There are plenty of other reasons to use server instead of workstation licenses, though - the main one that comes to mind is licensing: it's not legal to service more than 4 (???) remote clients from a workstation-licensed system, or something like that. Also, the TCP stack tuning is set for much higher connection counts on server, a workstation OS may start refusing connections much sooner than anticipated.</p>
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<div dir="ltr">thanks for the info Scott - as you can tell, I'm not a windows guy, so i dont know their licencing. good to know though. Dan.</div>
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<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 1:59 PM Scott Toderash <<a href="mailto:scott@100percenthelpdesk.com">scott@100percenthelpdesk.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div>iirc that's technically not allowed because MS does not let you transfer licenses to another machine, since sometime around XP days.<br /> <br /> (And I don't have any kicking around anyway.)<br /> <br /> Which is why, of course we all like GPL etc.<br /> <br /> There is the monthly option if you sign up for SPLA but it's likely not worth it for just 1 machine since the minimum is around $150/month. But then you could get other licenses for other things too.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
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<div>well, first off this is not for me (honest!) ..</div>
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<div>a guy I know is looking to run a windows server licence for some specific software vertical he is looking at ... (i asked - they dont have a linux port)</div>
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<div>the company (no idea who it is) claims the software works best on server licence as it utilizes</div>
<div>the hardware better ...</div>
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<div>he's looking at trying to save money on the licence, so does anyone have 2016 or 2008 server licences on dead machines that can be repurposed? </div>
<div>wondering if the likes of MER may as well....</div>
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<div>thanks.</div>
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