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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't tell if this is a weird rent seeking behavior trying to skim just a little bit more off of on-prem datacenters, and attempt to push people to azure to get the feature for "free", or another way to get companies to use Arc and make their servers phone-home more.

The pricing is so low it confuses me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Per core. It ain't that low.

40 core dual slotted xeon runs at $60/month? For patches?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

only for windows server? So windows home and pro users won't have to worry about this?

Good...I mean it's bad that windows server users are getting scammed, but the average user doesn't have windows server