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Buying Microsoft Licenses
- Thread starter Shred
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Comztek doesn't sell to the public - OP do you want to buy or resell? PM me for a price if you want to....
PC Direct
Dealer
We are authorised MS Open Licensing resellers. Drop me an email on [email protected] and I'll quote and assist you.
medicnick83
Paramedic
PC Direct
Dealer
Everyone? No. Authorised in terms of our relationships with our authorised importers to supply.
But I get your point.
czc
Honorary Master
What is Open licensing?
PC Direct
Dealer
Microsoft Open License is a Volume Licensing program for small to mid-sized organizations that have fewer than 250 desktop PCs. The program provides a simple, flexible, and cost-effective way to buy the latest Microsoft technology to meet your organization's needs and procurement procedures.
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/licensing-options/open-license.aspx
czc
Honorary Master
So if I were to suddenly need to add 45 people to the office. This would be cheaper than buying a whole lot of licenses? If so I'll keep that in mind if my company gets awarded a big tender in 2 months.
No. Microsoft Volume Licensing (MVL), of which there are many types, is not the cheapest way to buy licenses (depending on the total number of users); OEM/DSP is. Retail is the most expensive, and MVL sits in-between the two. One of the biggest advantages of MVL is that you can install the license on many machines (although only one at a time obviously), unlike OEM/DSP which lives and dies on the machine (Full Retail packages are also not limited to a single machine). The one disadvantage of MVL is that you need to buy 5 licenses to enter the program....
MVL also allows you to buy Subscription Advantage, pay off all licenses over a period of two or three years, and it also offers packages of licenses in a single product, i.e. CoreCal which has a Sharepoint, Exchange, Server, Forefront, System Centre and OCS license included. You also get better pricing models as your number of users increases >250 and you can enrol in the Enterprise Agreement. Lastly, you also have the True-Up option, so you could potentially grow, and then shrink before the True-Up period commences
Short story, MS licensing is the MOST complicated form of licensing known to mankind....
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gregmcc
Honorary Master
Sounds like licensing for Open Office
You ain't kidding! You can actually do a MS course just on their licensing!
Even some of the MS people don't understand their licensing model - we get weird and wonderful stories when querying info on cal's.
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PC Direct
Dealer
Sounds like licensing for Open Office
hehe naw