Revenant (10/17/2011)

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It has nothing to do with engineers in the Servers and Tools Division and in support (ECO).

Sorry.

Knut Boehnert (10/18/2011)

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One other problem is the enforcement. While I like the idea to pay by scale how can unscrupulous customers be forced to pay the right scale?
So buying one core, 2GB license and then deploy on 32 core, 2 TB server? The lockdown has to be in the code which could be buggy or lead to side problems (it needs cycles to check that the underlying hardware hasn't changed etc).
So a simpler licensing model becomes an engineering problem. Nothing that can not be solved but imagine the outcry that MS interrogates your server...
I guess there is no real easy answer to this dilemma.

a-241529 (10/18/2011)

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I would personally love it if the server came with all the features, and like Express it limited hardware. I would like it even more if the increments, and buy in were a low bar allowing you to scale your environment very granularly.

A good example would be something like:
Each 1GB RAM or core/processor it will use for SQL Server would be $100, and just give me all features, like you said.

Then, also make the lowest buy in remove any restriction on DB size. Realistically, any serious business will need to scale RAM/proc with DB size unless it has low use.

So, I could buy two licenses for $200 and get all the enterprise features, but the hardware allowance would be about the same as SQL Express, so it's not like I could run an airline booking system on it.

Just my two cents,

John