paul.knibbs (3/25/2011)
I disagree here. Licensing per core is all well and good, but you might well end up paying to license a feature you don't want and never use! I'd rather see some sort of system where, rather than have fixed "editions" of the product, you just pay for the bits you need.
This then becomes fighting for any feature that's useful which I'm sure can be a very painful process. Right now the argument could be that clustering is needed and partition is very useful so by going to a higher edition we get both. If you had to pay for each feature you're more likely not to get partitioning because only clustering is really needed so management shoots down one.