SQL Server Price Change: Increase or Decrease?

I was just surfing through the SAP Partner portal and saw a news caption - Microsoft SQL Server Price Change . Microsoft SQL Server is one of the three database systems supported by SAP Business One. Other supported database systems are IBM DB2 and Sybase. In most cases, this software - MS SQL is bundled together with SAP Business One, hence, it impacts on the total cost of ownership of the SAP Business One system.

In view of this, SAP deemed it right to alert Partner companies on a proposed change to the price of Microsoft SQL Server. According to the press release: "The purpose of the communication is to inform all SAP Partners of a pending change to Microsoft SQL Server pricing effective October 15th, 2006. This change is as a result of Microsoft's decision to introduce a new licensing model for their SQL Server 2005 product."

In the meantime, no indication was given as to whether it's an increase or a decrease in price. What do you think? Your guess is as good as mine!