when you say "CPU's, are you referring to virtual CPU's? i believe Standard 2008 is 4 sockets, but the Virtual CPU's could be, say 16 on a four socket motherboard with four-core processors per physical CPU?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143760(v=sql.100).aspx
or am i reading it wrong?
Lowell
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