Microsoft lifts the price of System Center by ten percent

Microsoft has revealed that the 2025 edition of its System Center management tool will debut on November 1st, at prices ten percent higher that it charged for its predecessor. “The new pricing supports the continued development and improvement of System Center, ensuring it remains a leading solution for managing complex IT …

[Pascal Monett]

“The new pricing supports the continued development and improvement of System Center"

Oh, so the old pricing didn't ?

Bollocks. That's just your excuse to gouge your customers ever more.

You ain't fooling no one.

[Guy de Loimbard]

Re: “The new pricing supports the continued development and improvement of System Center"

My thoughts entirely Pascal.

All the big tech companies are at it, once you're locked into a solution watch the prices rise beyond your wildest and most uncontrollable dreams!

More like a nightmare of continual terror me thinks!

[gratou]

Companies going to the cloud lose the control of their costs and are the mercy of whatever increase the supplier fancies. Maybe that will sink in one day.

[Doctor Syntax]

"Maybe that will sink in one day."

If it doesn't it might sink the victims companies.

[Steve Davies 3]

Clouds....

Physical Clouts:

Many of them are full of water that pisses all over you without warning.

IT Clouds:

Most are there to fleece you of money that you can't afford when you try to get in the dry (i.e. leave them for another supplier or on-premises)

Not a lot of difference really.

[PCScreenOnly]

WSUS

Convenient timing with the deprecation of WSUS

[collinsl]

Re: WSUS

I wonder how they've got CM/SCCM/MECM/SCM/Whatever working without WSUS now, since all the versions I've worked on relied on WSUS to actually pull any updates down from Microsoft to then feed into SCCM's database, and to serve up the content to SCCM.

[Groo The Wanderer]

But anything more from Microsquishy? Not bloody likely!

[localzuk]

Re: Need admin utility to manage the admin utility

There's a tiny bit of overlap between AD and Config Manager, but not much (application deployment).

AD doesn't do most of what Config Manager does - OS deployment, update management, complex application deployment, reporting, etc...