The new purchasing policy for Shavlik is absurd for small businesses. Now you have to buy 10 licenses of the same kind at a time, either 10 server or 10 workstation.
I configured 2 new virtual machines and wanted to buy 2 new server licenses. Instead of 2 licenses, I have to pay over $570 for 10 licenses, 8 of which will not be used. This may not seem like a lot of money but for a small business it is a factor. I would use them for workstations but I already have 5 extra licenses because of the senseless 45 days requirement for a machine to disappear.
Also, it would have been nice for Shavlik to blast an email to their customers telling them of this new policy before it went into effect. Now I am stuck with Windows Defender and Windows Updates on two of my VMs.
As I said, this is not a big deal for large corporations, but the little guy is getting