[BNM] Wow! - Amazon to add windows to the cloud...

Mark Ng mark at markng.me.uk
Wed Oct 1 18:05:58 BST 2008


2008/10/1 Sevan / Venture37 <venture37 at hotmail.com>:
>
>> Good news for you .net types, indeed.  AWS EC2 stuff has been decent
>> value for UNIX stuff, I suspect the pricing will be the same as for
>> UNIX if they let you bring your own licenses.
>
> Apart from SCO can you think of a x86 UNIX vendor that charges for their OS??

Sorry, it appears what I was saying wasn't clear ;).  I meant, I
imagine they'd charge the same for the CPU Time/Disk Space/Bandwidth
as with the UNIX option, if they were letting you use your own
pre-purchased windows licenses ...

Mark


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