http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/28150
With the introduction of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft improved its software licensing options for virtualized servers. Still license fees for virtual servers, as well as support of software running on them, remain big areas of contention for Microsoft customers. But customers will be hard pressed to find loopholes in Microsoft’s terms, suggests Forrester analyst Christopher Voce at Forrester’s IT Forum in Las Vegas Friday. However, customers are creatively trying to circumvent the virtualization issue when they need product support, and not just with Microsoft products, according to a recent Burton Group report. It said customers of numerous software vendors deal with support limitations by “accidentally” failing to disclose that an application is running on a virtual machine, or by cloning virtual machines to a physical server before calling support.
Check out this article talking about licensing and virtualization a topic of interest and debate that is set to continue, an interesting read.
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