Softgrid pricing drastically cut

According to an unofficial price list announced on thincomputing.net the post-Microsoft pricing of the Softgrid products will be drastically lowered, up to as much as 85%. According to the news posting, the new prices will be

Softgrid Desktop Licenses: €32 / $38 (list) Softgrid Terminal Server Licenses: €18 / $21 (list) Softgrid Terminal Server Licenses will no longer be based on the concurrent number of users (as in all Microsoft products) Softgrid ZeroTouch will be free and part of the Softgrid Server software. Softgrid SMS Connector: Free (if you have other Softgrid licenses) The Universal Desktop license will disappear: it's either a Destop or a Terminal Server license. Softricity Software Assurance will disappear completely.

While I was sure that the Microsoft buyout of SoftGrid would turn into lowered licensing costs for the products, I don't think anyone guess that the price cuts would be this big. No official word on this yet, so it's still very much unconfirmed. If this turns out to be the case, the entry point for enterprise application virtualization has been dramatically lowered. Especially the Terminal Server license price looks to be dirt cheap, and SoftGrid is an excellent way of doing application isolation in Terminal Server/Citrix setups. No more application silo's sounds very, very intriguing to me, and frankly Citrix Application Isolation in Presentation Server 4.0 leaves a lot to be desired. Citrix has it's own Tarpon project, but so far I can't comment on that as I've never seen or used it. Interesting times for all those of us that are interested in virtualization on any form.

Posted by Christian Mohn aka h0bbel