Some Possible Insight into Microsoft SharePoint Pricing
February 1, 2009
You have to respect a Web log writer who uses this disclaimer on her splash page:
Emma Explains Microsoft Licensing in Depth! Microsoft Licensing&SAM Blog, share information, DO NOT COPY CONTENT WITHOUT MY EXPRESS PERMISSION, Feedback & Qs welcome, Do not put up offensive, inciting or legally challenging info,Posting provided “AS IS” with no warranties ,confers no rights. You will want to check this out for yourself here.
The addled goose won’t quote because I don’t have the juice to send an email to ask permission to quote something on what sure looks like a public Web page. Here’s a link to a write up by “Emma” who allegedly sets forth the real dope on Microsoft SharePoint licensing. Here write up about MOSS FIS and CALS is here. Her write up about SharePoint server is here. There are some figures that seem interesting, but without the assumptions underlying these, it is difficult for the addled goose to determine if the data will match your Microsoft invoice. In my experience, Microsoft’s prices are fluid.
A recent example concerns a Fortune 100 company that was looking at SharePoint and a third party search system. The Redmond team pitched a 100 percent Microsoft solution and kicked in the Fast Search & Transfer lego blocks for a song. In this type of bundled deal, I think any “hard” prices become squishy.
Emma, on the other hand, presents concrete. Let’s hope that her concrete endures like the Roman architects’ mixture. My hunch is that modern day concrete won’t last. A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to Emma’s pricing information.
Stephen Arnold, February 1, 2009
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Hey there, thank you for the posting, the reason I had this disclamier on was due to the fact that a “person” copied&pasted my entire post, removed my name and put on there own name, with no words of wisdom from themselves, and reposted on there own blog, now that they are aware this is not nice blog etiquette I have removed this disclamier from the site
Cheers
Emma