{"id":10636,"date":"2013-08-10T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10636"},"modified":"2013-08-10T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:40:13","slug":"microsoft-to-squeeze-datacenters-on-price-of-winserver-2012-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10636","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to Squeeze Datacenters on Price of WinServer 2012 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Microsoft Corp. plans to raise the price of the Datacenter edition of the upcoming R2 release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aidanfinn.com\/?p=15289\">Windows Server 2012 by 28 percent<\/a>, adding to what analysts call a record number of price increases for enterprise software products from Redmond.<\/p>\n<p>According to licensing data sheets available for download from <a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/F\/3\/9\/F39124F7-0177-463C-8A08-582463F96C9D\/Windows_Server_2012_R2_Licensing_Datasheet.pdf\">the Windows Server 2012 R2 Website (PDF)<\/a>, the price of a single license of Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter will be $6,155, compared to $4,809 today\u2014plus the cost of a Client Access Licenses (CAL) for every user or device connecting to the server.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/topic\/datacenter\/microsoft-to-squeeze-datacenters-on-price-of-winserver-2012-r2\/\">Microsoft to Squeeze Datacenters on Price of WinServer 2012 R2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp. plans to raise the price of the Datacenter edition of the upcoming R2 release of Windows Server 2012 by 28 percent, adding to what analysts call a record number of price increases for enterprise software products from Redmond. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10636\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[41,50,481,815],"class_list":["post-10636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-data-centers","tag-microsoft","tag-pricing","tag-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}