Microsoft adopts virtual licenses

Microsoft today unveiled new licensing policies that applies to Windows Server and related products installed in virtual machine environments - no matter whether users are running Microsoft’s Virtual Server software or VMware’s rival virtualization technology.

One change will let users who buy SQL Server, BizTalk Server and other Microsoft server software under a per-processor model license the products according to the number of virtualized processors they actually use, instead of the number of physical processors in their boxes.

Read the complete story here. (Computerworld)