New Microsoft Windows licensing whitepaper covering third Party Virtualization products released:

Microsoft already exposed its licensing strategy more clearly with the launch of Virtualization Calculator 2.0, a few weeks ago, but customers were still missing an official document to refer to.

"The most interesting part anyway is a final comparison chart between VMware ESX Server, SWsoft Virtuozzo and Microsoft Virtual Server, where appears VMware ESX Server is less expensive than competitors when using Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, and has equal costs when you adopt Enterprise or Datacenter editions (which are preferred choice for virtualization deployments)."

Download the whitepaper or read the entire article from virtualization.info who broke this news.