Microsoft announced in early March that SQL Server is to be available on Linux (http://bit.ly/1Y1LSlS) but how will it be licensed?
The answer’s easier than you might expect – if you buy a SQL Server licence then you’ll be able to use SQL Server on Windows Server or Linux.
Find this and some other useful SQL 2016 questions here: http://bit.ly/1RLZG2j.
Microsoft offer free licences for customers who want to move their Oracle databases to SQL Server.
The process? Organizations identify how many SQL Server Core licences they’ll need for the migration, sign a Server and Cloud Enrolment, pay Software Assurance only for the Core licences, and then prove that the migration has taken place.
Included in the offer there’s also free training and deployment assistance until 30 June, 2016.
See the full announcement and download the offer brochure here: http://bit.ly/1YOolWM.
These rights are an SA benefit for Dynamics AX Server and SQL Server allowing customers to run passive fail-over instances of the product without additional licences.
Previously, the fail-over instances had to be on a separate OSE on the licensed server or on a different server dedicated to the customer’s use.
New wording added to the December 2015 Product Terms on page 82 confirms that this right is now extended to qualifying shared servers as part of the Licence Mobility through Software Assurance benefit.