Saying it wants to "enable customers to begin realizing the promise of self-managing dynamic systems," Microsoft on Monday announced changes to its licensing structure in order to accommodate the increasing popularity of virtualized computing through a project called the Dynamic Systems Initiative.
Such systems allow IT departments to virtualize computing resources in order to make them more nimble and responsive to a company's specific requirements. The new license structure would no longer require customers purchase a Windows license for each virtual server until the virtual server is actually used.
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Oct 10, 2005, 07:42 PM
