As a further clarification, what is happening is that there is no per socket pricing at all for XEN going forward. So for example, yesterday if you wanted to put XEN Enterprise on a two socket box it was $ 3,000 X 2 = $6,000, on a quad it was $ 3,000 X 4 = $12,000 Going forward XEN Enterprise is simply $3,000 for any server up to 8 processors, period. Here is where it gets really interesting- XEN Platinum will be $ 5,000 and can provision to unlimited VM's on the host AND 3 other hardware servers. So for a 4 way, quad core system you can run XEN with Provisioning Server for all the VM's you can host on 16 cores and three other hardware systems for a total of $ 5,000 !!!! This is very huge everyone ... Steve Greenberg Thin Client Computing 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453 Scottsdale, AZ 85266 (602) 432-8649 www.thinclient.net steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Reese Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:13 PM To: Thin Subject: [THIN] Citrix XenServer Pricing seems to be a virtual kind of day. Just saw this on the Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/31/citrix_xensource_4point1_release/