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> And when deploying on-premises, the cost of the Windows licenses do matter a lot. Sort of. My understanding is with Datacenter, you license the virtual host

by gregmac 10y ago

> And when deploying on-premises, the cost of the Windows licenses do matter a lot. Sort of. My understanding is with Datacenter, you license the virtual host (per-processor cost) and can run as many VMs on it as you want. So the incremental license cost of is zero, if you already license that way. Other editions have some limits, so "it depends". But it's not just a "your solution uses Windows, so your customer must buy a license". The other factor is support cost. If you're selling to an organization that can handle Linux, that is probably cheaper. If you're selling to an organization that only has Windows expertise, it's probably going to suck a lot of your support time to get them running on Linux -- and even though you may be able to do remote support more efficiently than you can with Windows, you're still going to be doing more of it.

bad_user 10y ago
Well my experience is that we've had to always provide support. I had to deal with customers running Windows, but those customers that lacked a capable IT guy didn't have the actual know how to actually maintain a Windows server. And when that server crashes due to poor maintenance, guess who gets called. Basically as a provider, you can never trust the customer's capability for maintaining the server that your solution runs on. It's much better to decrease your costs for delivering the required support. Otherwise you're going to find yourself guiding somebody on what buttons to click in the Control Panel, for getting the damn network to work, on the phone, on a Saturday.
- majewsky 10y ago
  But that's not specific to Windows servers. Have fun guiding the non-IT guy at the other end of the line to install that important OpenSSL update on a Linux terminal.
- flukus 10y ago
  This has always been a good reason to stick with MSSql. In future I think dropping a postgres docker image on their windows server may become the norm though.

by gregmac 10y ago

bad_user 10y ago

Well my experience is that we've had to always provide support. I had to deal with customers running Windows, but those customers that lacked a capable IT guy didn't have the actual know how to actually maintain a Windows server. And when that server crashes due to poor maintenance, guess who gets called. Basically as a provider, you can never trust the customer's capability for maintaining the server that your solution runs on. It's much better to decrease your costs for delivering the required support. Otherwise you're going to find yourself guiding somebody on what buttons to click in the Control Panel, for getting the damn network to work, on the phone, on a Saturday.

majewsky 10y ago
But that's not specific to Windows servers. Have fun guiding the non-IT guy at the other end of the line to install that important OpenSSL update on a Linux terminal.
flukus 10y ago
This has always been a good reason to stick with MSSql. In future I think dropping a postgres docker image on their windows server may become the norm though.