We have a server with 2 CPU's on board. We consider purchasing the enterpris
e
edition but were a bit shocked by its price, 25K per CPU. I was wondering if
we can start with a single CPU license. Coming from a Unix/Java Appserver
environment, I used to bind a application/proces to one CPU, even if there
are multiple CPU's in the server.

Is this technically possible on the MSFT OS? Is this allowed from a
licensing perspective?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi Slieric,

with enterprise edition you need to buy a single license for every CPU in
your machine.
Only with standard edition MCMS supports binding to a single CPU even if
more than one CPU is installed.

Cheers,
Stefan

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"Slieric" <Slieric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We have a server with 2 CPU's on board. We consider purchasing the
> enterprise
> edition but were a bit shocked by its price, 25K per CPU. I was wondering
> if
> we can start with a single CPU license. Coming from a Unix/Java Appserver
> environment, I used to bind a application/proces to one CPU, even if there
> are multiple CPU's in the server.
>
> Is this technically possible on the MSFT OS? Is this allowed from a
> licensing perspective?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

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