Comments on: Cost to Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/cost-to-upgrade-to-sql-server-2008-r2/ Wed, 22 May 2013 12:21:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: ssnewbie http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/cost-to-upgrade-to-sql-server-2008-r2/#comment-87182 ssnewbie Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:29:53 +0000 #comment-87182 And, thanks to Mrdenny for clearly pointing it out, is where small to medium businesses in a cash-crunch and realizing the end-of-primary-support looming in a few short weeks, are effectively skewered. Would that MS would realize they can accrue revenue via an UPGRADE path vs. “buy it again folks”. Looks like we’ll be on limited-support real soon… Ah well, at least MS CMS 2002 is still dishing up content reliably, so maybe we’ll have it good-enough w/ SS2005.

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]]> By: mrdenny http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/cost-to-upgrade-to-sql-server-2008-r2/#comment-77282 mrdenny Wed, 19 May 2010 05:24:14 +0000 #comment-77282 Skipping the marketing BS that Microsoft posted…

There’s no upgrade pricing. It costs what is costs. If you have CALs for your users, then you’ll need to get new CALs. If you are using CPU based licensing then you’ll need to get new CPU licenses.

Now if you have software assurance for the existing instance, then the upgrade is free.

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