On May 1, 1931, the Empire State Building was dedicated during a ceremony led by President Herbert Hoover, who symbolically pressed a button in Washington at the same time the skyscraperâs lights were turned on at 350 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
1 The major change in licensing from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2012 is that a per core option is now available for the Standard Edition. 2  This means that you have two choices: purchase per core licenses at $1,793 or purchase a server license at $898 and client access licenses at $209 per client. SQL Server 2012 Web is a specialized version of SQL Server for use in web hosting environments. 2  This edition is available only to Services Provider License Agreement customers. 3  Contact your Microsoft sales rep for further information if you think you may qualify.
If your organization has more than about 25 employees, you may need to look at buying SharePoint Standard, previously known as MOSS. SharePoint 2010 Server costs from $4,900 and a single license for the Standard edition is priced from $7,389. This option provides the core capabilities of SharePoint; sites, communities, content and limited search and composite features. You will need to buy additional standard CALs for MOSS and the Standard edition of the software. For this option, user CALs cost from $125 and device CALs cost from $142.