Okay. I'll admit that I don't like Microsoft much. They tend to annoy me a lot for some reason. This is one that affected me at work significantly before I left.
InfoWorld: Frustrated Microsoft users explore options [Rodent Regatta]
The new licensing terms from Microsoft are not making corporate users very happy, it seems... [jenett.radio]
We ran into this at work recently when we were looking to upgrade some of the copies of SQL Server we were running. We were told, 'oh, no, we don't do upgrades anymore, you have to buy all new versions.' Well, that just wasn't in the budget to do. Let's not forget the snail mails we were getting for months about their new licensing models. No wonder their revenues went up last quarter, they were scaring everyone into buying the latest version of their software so that they wouldn't get screwed later on.
I would have loved to have looked at other solutions, but people at work were quite Microsoft centric.
