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Do not forget — Microsoft licence costs also increase with the number of CPU cores in your server. In addition to costs themselves, Microsoft licensing is a hi
by __sr__ 8y ago
Do not forget — Microsoft licence costs also increase with the number of CPU cores in your server.
In addition to costs themselves, Microsoft licensing is a highly complex topic. One of my colleagues who deals with Microsoft jokes that someone well versed with MS licensing deserves a PhD. A lot of people simply don’t want to deal with all that when they have a thousand other things to worry about.
- angry_octet 8y agoAnd because of the cost the accountants demand tight centralised control, which ends up being slow and unresponsive, and you find yourself spinning (emailing, writing business cases, managing and reporting expenditure) instead of doing. It is a huge negative.
- __sr__ 8y agoThe horror! Fill gazillions of forms in triplicate and get them approved before we’d let you do anything useful.