License Costs
Licensing costs are identical regardless of the platform, and the platforms may be mixed under the same license. As is typical for Novell's products, OES is licensed per user seat, without regard to the number of physical servers on which the product is deployed. Further, pricing is typically not altered by physical CPUs or the use of hardware virtualization technologies (e.g. VMware, Xen). Finally, NetWare and OES both include two-node licenses for Novell Cluster Services, allowing basic clustered environments to be created without additional licensing charges.
This contrasts directly with MS Windows, which imposes per-server charges, per-client charges, and levies additional charges for larger SMP support and even basic clustering.
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