Microsoft Releases Computational Cluster Technical Preview To olkit

Toon Moene toon at moene.indiv.nluug.nl
Thu Feb 15 14:24:40 PST 2001


Raul Romero Wells wrote:

> You need a license for a server, a license for a workstation and a license to interconect them, so maybe you'll
> need a special license to connect a cluster...

Of course !  To act otherwise would stiffle innovation:

http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc

"Redmond, Washington, Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
operating-system chief, Jim Allchin, says that freely distributed
software code such as rival Linux could stifle innovation and that
legislators need to understand the threat."

Straight from the horse's mouth ...

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