Many of us have probably seen the new SQL Server 2012
per core licensing, with Enterprise Edition at $6,874
per core super ceding the $27,495
per socket of SQL Server 2008 R2 (discounted to $19,188 for 4-way and $23,370 for 2-way in TPC benchmark reports) with Software Assurance at $6,874
per processor? Datacenter was $57,498
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