If you run a lot of Windows servers, it’s sometimes cheaper to run old stuff longer as they are raising prices on a per core basis. I was stuck supporting one

If you run a lot of Windows servers, it’s sometimes cheaper to run old stuff longer as they are raising prices on a per core basis. I was stuck supporting one of these environments, and made a business case to overbuy the hardware a few years ago when they did a “free” socket to core migration. They’re still running those things, as the maintenance on the servers is less than paying for more cores.