{"id":4763,"date":"2007-01-24T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-12-22T15:34:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T23:34:54","slug":"windows-server-virtualization-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/windows-server-virtualization-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server virtualization calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the new <a title=\"calculator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver2003\/howtobuy\/licensing\/calculator.mspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows Server virtualization calculator<\/a> to get an estimate on the\u00a0number of OS licenses needed,\u00a0and the costs, to virtualize different datacenter\u00a0configurations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The calculator is pre-populated with the US dollar Open agreement Estimated Retail Prices for Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition and Datacenter Edition (yellow chart below), which you can update with your organization\u2019s prices for more accurate estimates.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On a related note,\u00a0some of the team will be attending <a title=\"InfoWorld virtualization forum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/event\/virtualization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InfoWorld&#8217;s virtualization forum<\/a>, Feb. 12, in San Francisco.\u00a0Mike Neil will co-present with Novell, and then later appear on a vendor panel. 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