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

[paul perrin]

I understood :-)

Hopefully they will come up with an understandable model though -- MS's
licencing is a mine field !!

Paul /)/+)
2008/10/1 Mark Ng <mark at markng.me.uk>

> 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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