[German]Today a nice article about how Microsoft and Oracle are pulling customers you around the arena by a nose ring. Blame the licensing thing. Depending on your view, it's either love or hate. Some will happily donate their money for licenses – you are doing a good work (there is no alternative), others curse like sparrows, but swallow it anyway. One reader informed me that he is "happy" to pay triple the price for renewing an MS SQL Server license. And Oracle users are rejoicing because new Java SE licenses are now charged by the user. This moved me to share this joy with you and write a small article about it.
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MS SQL Server license, sorry we tripled the price
German blog reader Oliver P. contaqcted me as early as February 14, 2023 to share the good news for Microsoft's shareholders (thanks for pointing that out). Oliver wrote under the title SQL 2022 triples prices:
Hi Günter,
have searched for this but haven't found anything on the blog yet….
We are redoing our SQL 2014 and joar… I don't need pitchforks, I need assault rifles and grenades. It's really slow for a change.
According to the snippet above, SQL Server 2022 for virtual machines will only be licensed with subscription or Software Assurance. The shareholders are happy and Oliver write:
What the…, what did they smoke?
I could buy a SQL 2019 VM with 8 cores still for 15k€, it costs me with SQL 2022 already 45k€.
That is a TRIPLE!!! of the price!!!
So the 4840€ CSP 3Y Subscription) /3 *7 (usual server uptime) * 4 (4x 2 cores).
We look now if we can still buy SQK 2019 …
But that may no longer be possible, because only the current version is guaranteed to be offered via CSP and Open Value was discontinued in 2022 (see).
Or we put that thing back on physically server. Then these restrictions don't apply, I just have to be careful that I bind the SQL processes to the cores…
I would like to go to our customers in negotiations. "Hi guys, we will be 3x as expensive as before. Deal? Bye, bye.""
I'm looking forward to 5 years from now when they say "oh you want to run this on premise? Ohhh that only works from Enterprise".
And concerning the bugs of this alternative-less software, Oliver has also given something to the best and made himself unpopular. He wrote:
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Last year I escalated us to the top [list of bug reporters] of the QM team (EU, I don't know how far the teams are shared) at Microsoft, because I can't see these tons of never fixed bugs anymore.
Had us felt almost banned as a company, if there is such a thing at MS.
So they always take money, sure… but they already threatened me to contact our GF. Of course they didn't react to the bug reports anymore. Ass on bucket and so.
Can I retire with you?
Because it's no fun anymore.
After to Corona, people are currently all stupid enough.
I'll do something with plants soon …
I've been hearing this about plants or balcony flowers from administrators in the Microsoft environment more often lately. I have a theory that this must have something to do with Microsoft's "Green IT Initiative". I'm still researching this – but my heart always swells when I read how this Microsoft is loved (by shareholders, I mean).
Would you like some more Oracle Java SE?
Came across the post from IT News at Mastodon a few days ago, linking to the article Oracle Criticized Over Price Change for New Oracle Java SE Licenses – While Oracle's existing Java corporate licensing agreements are still in effect from slashdot.
Oracle has come up with a "clever" new Java SE licensing agreement. The new pricing model is based on the number of employees, with different pricing tiers for different numbers of employees. As a result, every employee in the company is counted for licensing purposes, even if they don't use Java software.
As a result, companies using Java SE will face significant price increases. The change will primarily affect large companies with many employees, but midsize companies will also be greatly affected. Although Oracle promises to allow existing users to renew their contract under the current terms, the company will likely push users to adopt the new model over time.
And now I'm sitting at my desk and wondering "Why didn't you become a software developer? A company with 20,000 employees as licensees and 1 Doller per nose and month, I could put my feet up to the desk. But wait, I've been a software developer 40 years ago, but nearly 30 years ago then I decided to "become a writer" – ok, I think I'll keep blogging, money isn't all about.
