March 21, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Hi,
We are on a licensing model where we pay every year for what we have installed. There is going to be some company restructure after which we won't have access to the pricing of the larger company for your licenses. We are running SQL 2008 R2 at the moment.
Microsoft licensing datasheet says: "EA/EAP customers will have until their next EA/EAP renewal after 6/30/2012 to purchase additional server licenses for EE to complete currently planned projects. After that, all new EE licenses must be purchased per core"
It would be ideal if we could purchase SQL 2012 licenses outright now, while we have access to the pricing of the larger company, instead of using every year license model, continue using SQL 2008 R2 and upgrade to 2012 when we think we need to.
My understanding is that by buying the licenses outright you pay less than 2 years of the amount we pay now, under our current licensing model.
Is this approach still possible in these circumstances?
Thanks.
March 21, 2012 at 8:36 pm
Hey
My response is going to be a complete cop-out in terms of what you want around licensing advice....
....but....
.... speak to your licensing agent and see what you can negotiate on the costs....I'd say you'll be surprised as to what Microsoft will agree to. The printed retail rates aren't always applied 🙂 They're a starting point.
Too many people take half baked wrong advice on forums around licensing - and it can cost you....
...your job....
...your money...
...your career.
Licensing is owned, managed, determined, etc by Microsoft. Don't try and cut corners using wonky licensing strategies that are based on hear-say.
Chat to MS licensing agent and I'll bet they'll help you out 🙂
Good luck!
Michael
March 21, 2012 at 8:55 pm
eforta.it (3/21/2012)
HeyMy response is going to be a complete cop-out in terms of what you want around licensing advice....
....but....
.... speak to your licensing agent and see what you can negotiate on the costs....I'd say you'll be surprised as to what Microsoft will agree to. The printed retail rates aren't always applied 🙂 They're a starting point.
Too many people take half baked wrong advice on forums around licensing - and it can cost you....
...your job....
...your money...
...your career.
Licensing is owned, managed, determined, etc by Microsoft. Don't try and cut corners using wonky licensing strategies that are based on hear-say.
Chat to MS licensing agent and I'll bet they'll help you out 🙂
Good luck!
Michael
Hi Michael,
I will check any information with the agent, but it would be good if you or someone else could tell if there are issues with this idea right in the begining, so I could prepare to the conversation with the agent.
Thanks.
March 22, 2012 at 9:10 am
as long as you continue to license the 2008 r2 you continue to use until you upgrade i don't see a problem. also check if there is a time limit to install the 2012 licenses. but any thing i do would be in writing from the MS rep. always CYA.
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March 22, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Me again 🙂
I don't think you can buy 2012 licence and run 2008 R2 instead...
I'd ask the MS rep if you could - particularly if you have access to the better pricing.
As a story shared - our rep is currently looking at doing some kind of Datacenter EE licence deal, as all of our environment is VM Ware infrastructure.... This is licencing all physical CPUs (at the core level though) for all of our hosts.
That way we can run as many SQL Server VMs as we like (and not per OSE).
Cheers
Michael
March 22, 2012 at 8:20 pm
eforta.it (3/22/2012)
Me again 🙂I don't think you can buy 2012 licence and run 2008 R2 instead...
i would agree. if you buy 2012 but do not install make sure you continue to license your 2008 R2 instances.
For performance Issues see how we like them posted here: How to Post Performance Problems - Gail Shaw[/url]
Need to Split some strings? Jeff Moden's DelimitedSplit8K[/url]
Jeff Moden's Cross tab and Pivots Part 1[/url]
Jeff Moden's Cross tab and Pivots Part 2[/url]
March 22, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Others have said it, I will say it again:
Check with Microsoft. You are licensing their software, so get the information form the horses mouth (I won't finish this sentence with what a referee instructor once told her class).
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