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12-18-2013, 11:40 AM #1Web Hosting Master
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Insight SPLA Price Increase
Did anyone else just get a notice saying that effective January 1 that prices on SPLA licenses through Insight are going up between 20 and 45% depending on the license?
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12-18-2013, 11:46 AM #2Randy
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12-18-2013, 11:52 AM #3
I received this email as well. It looks like Windows Server 2012 Standard doesn't go up until January, 2015. Did I read this correctly?
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12-18-2013, 11:52 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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I just e-mailed with our rep. Apparently they've known about it for a long time, but didn't bother to tell us until now.
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12-18-2013, 12:22 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Insight are bound by MS prices like every other reseller to an extent, to be honest there is very little difference between them all (-10 to 10%, granted on 200+ desktop it adds up, sure same on SPLA vs OVLA), only issue was that Insight gave the correct price first time whilst the other resellers didn't until they had to commit, after much ball ache (try dealing with big companies) I couldnt get signoff on Insight and had to go with the bait and switch companies. Insight arent cheap but at least in the UK gave out the correct prices..
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12-18-2013, 12:24 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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My problem isn't so much with the price increase, as I get that it comes from Microsoft. It's that they provided us notice of the increase on December 18 that takes effect on January 1, when they've known of the increase for some time.
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12-18-2013, 12:46 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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Strange, we don't seem to have received the notice, but I do see the increase from $65 to $90 January 2014 for Data Center Edition when I click on the latest newsletter under "SPLA Pricing Summary". Nothing mentioned about the 2015 changes that I see there though?
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12-18-2013, 12:46 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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12-18-2013, 12:50 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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12-18-2013, 12:53 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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I think this was expected, I saw news on this back in September from other vendors...
Here's more specific details of the change: http://www.insight.com/us/en/brands/...ewsletter.html
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12-18-2013, 01:19 PM #12Cable Director
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Time to step away from Microsoft. It's good we don't have that many Windows boxes running.
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12-18-2013, 01:23 PM #13I route, therefore I am
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12-18-2013, 02:14 PM #14Disabled
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Yes, received the email as well, so short notice is really a shock.
I don´t know if this comes from Insight or Microsoft but this does not show any seriousness on their part. So hosting companies are now supposed to increase their prices in days?
If I was a hosting company I would inform this on the email increase to my customers, that the notice came without any prior notification in advance just to wash of hands.
Lets see, Microsoft removed the 2008 products which where the most sold editions, in particular Server Web Edition. They forced providers to move to 2012 and for a more expensive price this year.
Then they changed their license regarding virtual systems and increase the prices again.
Now they increase in more than 20% their prices again in 2014.
So what is exactly Microsoft up to? Kill their partners and move customers to their own cloud? How exactly is Amazon and other companies offering virtual desktops for less than 30$ a month?
It seems Microsoft is pushing more expensive prices to most companies and have special deals with big providers.
Or they are trying to milk companies vs the loss they had with desktop licenses as it seems Win8 is not sold as much as they hope, neither the surface and other products where they lost gazillions dollars.
Is the way the way of Microsoft telling providers to drop completely MS products?
The 2013 price increase set Microsoft servers and other products in a thought spot already vs free Linux cloud machines. And now they come up with a bigger increase?
It seems Windows Server which I actually like allot and so do new admins of servers will be a thing from the past. The budget market at least will not be able to afford virtual machines running Windows anymore. Its going to be just to expensive to even be price affordable.
Also, Microsoft seems to forget the license cost is not the only cost providers have, they already have an extra burden with having to manage and report the licenses.
I think 2014 will be the year that Linux will completely take the hosting world as Microsoft is just shooting themselves more and more with removing products like Web Edition and increasing their prices even more for a product nobody wants. Yes Im talking to you Server 2012.
Companies can only offer what their users request, and so far I don´t see people begging to buy 2012 Servers. 2008 R2 was actually a great product.
Bring us back the 2008 Servers price model !!!
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$65 -> $90/mo/cpu for data center. And another 15% in 2015. Greedy ****s.
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12-18-2013, 02:24 PM #18I route, therefore I am
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12-18-2013, 03:03 PM #20Artificial Intelligence
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The increase is do to the fact that you can run more VPS's on a single CPU socket, with AMD pushing out 24 core CPU's/socket in 2014 this was to be expected.
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12-18-2013, 03:46 PM #21Web Hosting Master
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Microsoft announced it in August/September. Plenty of time till January no?
Windows Datacenter will increase now and in 2015; Standard in 2015.
But this is due to the release of Windows Cloud Edition. It's going to cost differently: per hypervisor/processor and per VM instance (windows only). They want practically to force everybody to migrate to Win Cloud OS.
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talking about Microsoft caught in a "monkey-trap"
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We pass the costs on to customers. So, those that offer it FREE will probably bite the bullet now.
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You are talking about datacenter edition here with unlimited virtualization rights. If you index that to CPU/RAM performance gain you will see that in terms of computing capacity in 2015 it will still be cheaper than it was when $65/CPU price was introduced. It looks like Microsoft is saying "you consolidate workloads onto fewer machines with fewer CPUs because CPUs are bigger and RAM is more dense, so we adjust our price to compensate". Whether it makes sense or not is a question for each customer.
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