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SQL Server 2008 R2 Editions Pricing Announced

Source: Data Management

Nov 06, 2009

Summary

Microsoft has announced pricing and also what is new in the SQL Server 2008 R2 editions. First here is the pricing

EditionsPer Processor PricingRetail **Per Server Plus CAL PricingRetail **

Parallel Data Warehouse$57,498Not offered via Server CAL

Datacenter$57,498Not offered via Server CAL

Enterprise$28,749$13,969 with 25 CALs

Standard$7,499$1,849 with 5 CALs

I wonder how many people will go to Datacenter or Parallel Data Warehouse editions? To be fair Sybase IQ charges I believe $40K per core, SQL Server 2008 R2 is priced per socket and would still be a lot cheaper than Sybase IQ

Here are the other details:

New Premium Editions

Datacenter

Built on SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter is designed to deliver a high-performing data platform that provides the highest levels of scalability for large application workloads, virtualization and consolidation, and management for an organization’s database infrastructure. Datacenter helps enable organizations to cost effectively scale their mission-critical environment.

Key features new to Datacenter:

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