Wouldn't it have been nice that MS had done product research and created a traditional upgrade keeping SIS, and then released a "Datacenter Edition" for large scales of server farms/user bases which didn't have SIS?
I wonder what percentage of revenue is the small to medium business market compared to the large environment... On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Jim Mediger <j...@holaday.com> wrote: > > “Disk space savings from single instance storage are transient and drop > off > > very quickly over time.” > > I believe that is misleading at best. It may even be deliberate > propaganda to justify removing SIS. We've had several people post > their SIS ratios in this thread, and only one has been anywhere close > to a ratio of 1. Several have been 5 or more, and one was 40! While > this isn't a scientific sample, it does suggest that SIS of real > benefit for at least some people. > > Again, I suspect Microsoft is viewing this problem from the > standpoint of large, multi-server shops, where you have lots of > servers and lots of databases. In such cases, SIS can't help nearly > as much. But for the single-server shops, I suspect it's a different > story entirely. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
