Sometimes, I just can't get my head around licensing, and this is really one of those times.
We have been running a quite suped up SQL server for some time now.
16 cores and 128 GB RAM.
Up until now, this has been licensed as enterprise pr user, which has given me a cost of about $1000 a month. with the new regime, we are looking at about $3500 a month.
Our option now, is to downgrade to std., but from the little I know, this will also have some performance issues connected to it, i.e. 64GB max RAM.
How would you handle this?
I can just picture stepping up at a board meeting and laying out these numbers.