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AMD helps Dell, HPE, Lenovo to cut Windows Server 2019 licence costs – if you buy tin packing Epyc Rome CPUs

Thursday 6th August 2020 06:29 GMT Anonymous Coward

I hadn't realised that Windows Server licensing was charged per CPU core. Yes - that'll be pretty expensive if you have 128 cores... maybe grab a copy of Debian?

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