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<p>Whatever you do, don't forget that activation and licensing are
different things. You can have a machine that's activated yet
fails an audit, and that'll give you - or your client - a nasty
headache.</p>
<p>It's common to find some sites selling keys that would activate
the server and work no problem, yet if the client ever gets
audited... well...</p>
<p>Be careful!<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Alberto Abrao
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-03-30 2:24 p.m., Adam Thompson
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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>
<p>-Adam</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>Dan.</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>
<p>-Adam</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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at 1:59 PM Scott Toderash <<a
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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>
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(And I don't have any kicking around anyway.)<br>
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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>
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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>
<div> </div>
<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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<div>Dan.</div>
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