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Re:Is The Microsoft Stack Really More Expensive? by DanielBMarkham on Monday September 07, 2009 @11:42AM (#809305)
You're seriously telling us that when the hardware changes, instead of updating the license, you have to reinstall the entire stack?

Got a link for that?

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Re:Is The Microsoft Stack Really More Expensive? by rbanffy on Monday September 07, 2009 @05:00PM (#809749)
If you go beyond the license limits of your Windows or SQL Server and has to install the next product on the lineup, that's pretty much what you have to do.

Let's suppose you just added a couple extra Opterons to your server at the same time you decided to max out the memory available in the box. You went from single-socket quad-core to four-socket 16-core and from 32 GB to 128 GB (it's your database server, after all). What are you supposed to do? You will have to upgrade in-place. Unless I am very wrong (I never faced this situation - I am a Unix guy)

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