• FYI - Compression is now available in Standard Edition in R2 - yay!

    One thing that annoys me is that SSRS consumes a whole license if you put it on it's own box. I consider it a best practice to isolate SSRS from the core engine for performance reasons. I think licensing SSRS separately would make sense. Also, I have been burned many times where I install Standard and then 6 months later go to use some feature and it's not allowed because you are running Standard.

    We are heavy users of async mirroring so we typically install Enterprise most of the time.