Microsoft goes after VMware with free(ish) Windows licenses for Hyper-V converts

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(credit: Wikipedia ) With the imminent release of Windows Server 2016, due to be launched some time in September with its new per-core licensing , Microsoft is making a concerted effort to win over VMware users and get them to switch to Hyper-V. Accordingly, the company is running a time-limited promotion : switch from VMware to Hyper-V and the company will give you “free” licenses to Windows Server Datacenter. The catch is that you’ll need to buy a Software Assurance subscription too, so it’s not really free. But it should save some of the costs of migrating. To help persuade companies to switch, Microsoft has offered a TCO calculator to show off the big savings (Microsoft hopes) that can be had from making the switch. Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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