Microsoft has not yet announced prices for the Windows Terminal Server edition, but it did say that it was going to implement a $2,000 flat price for the Internet Connector server that allows customers to deploy Windows Terminal Server programs over the internet or corporate intranets. Previously, customers running the Terminal Server edition had to pay $9,999 for the 200-user Internet Connector program or buy a Client Access License for each user if they wanted to have an authenticated session for internet users connecting to an NT server. As in the past, customers wanting to have unauthenticated users hitting against a Windows 2000 Server – for example, just hitting on a web server for static HTML pages – will not be charged for those users.
Microsoft has not provided pricing for the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server yet, and probably won’t until it is getting ready to ship late next year; odds are, no one will know what it costs until it is announced. The company also reminded business partners and customers that it will continue selling the server and workstation editions of Windows NT 4.0 and issue service packs for it well beyond the Windows 2000 launch date in mid- February.
