Licensing in virtualized environments

As I encounter different technologies in virtualized environments it has become clear that one field that does not benefit from virtualization is licensing. Each software vendor is free to determine it’s own licensing terms and a lot of them end up with licensing terms that do not quite match the licensing terms of others.

In the series of posts in the category “Licensing” I will discuss different technologies and vendors and how they approach licensing in virtualized environments as I have encountered them. Feel free to share to your own experiences with the particular vendor or application so I can make separate posts about that.