@oksana

I doubt you will find the audience you are looking for at reddit, but good luck.

You only lose on the core licensing if you have more than 16 cores on two processors or you have 1 processor wiht less than 16 cores.

1 processor with 16 cores = 1 16 core server license
1 processor with 12 cores = 1 16 core server license
1 processor with 8 cores = 1 16 core server license
2 processors with 8 cores = 1 16 core server license
2 processors with 12 cores = 1 16 core server license + 4 2 core server license packs

Microsoft designed it around the most common system being sold. Intel Xeon dual proc 8 core systems.

It's a good show.