As I was first reading Steve's editorial I was thinking, "Sure that would be nice but they probably don't have the resources to throw at it. Nice-to-haves don't usually get priority even when you're the size of Microsoft." But the more I thought about it and read everyone's responses it dawned on me. Amazon must know since they now offer SQL server. MS must know in order to properly price Azure services. So it follows that it shouldn't be that hard to institute Steve's suggestions. Maybe changing the entire model is in order. Maybe it should be pay-per-feature. At least they need to consider something different in this space. It's been far too difficult for far too long and has only gotten more complex over time.