Updated: July 10, 2020 (June 23, 2003)

Pricing and Licensing

One important factor in upgrade decisions for Exchange and Outlook will be licensing costs. Even though pricing is unchanged from that of Exchange 2000 and Outlook XP, because Microsoft no longer offers Version Upgrades (VUPs) to volume license customers, customers without upgrade rights must purchase new licenses for Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003 at full product price (less any volume discounts) if they want to upgrade. In addition to upgrading their Exchange server licenses, they must upgrade all CALs used to connect to the new servers. Because new CALs will cost about US$67 each (without volume discounts), it could be prohibitively expensive just to perform a minor upgrade. (Organizations with Enterprise Agreements or that purchased Software Assurance on their Exchange servers and CALs will get these upgrades at no additional charge.)

Further complicating matters, organizations that want to upgrade to Windows Server 2003 on their Exchange servers must also upgrade to Exchange 2003 because earlier versions of Exchange will not run on Windows Server 2003. But since Exchange 2003 requires upgraded CALs, this additional cost could discourage organizations from upgrading the OS on their Exchange servers to Windows Server 2003.

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Updated: July 9, 2020 (November 15, 2000)

Analyst Report Archived

Pricing and Licensing

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Rob Helm

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration and content management. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s technology... more

SQL 2000 introduces higher prices for the Enterprise Edition (EE) and a new, per-processor licensing model for Web use (see the chart “SQL Server Licensing Models“). The older Concurrent-Use and Internet Connector models permitted by SQL 7 are replaced by per-processor licensing in SQL 2000. Per-seat licensing is still available and is still the most cost-effective model for small shops and for companies where users access several different servers. Some relevant points of the new pricing and licensing are as follows:

Price increase for EE. The estimated retail price (ERP) for SQL 2000 EE is US$11,099 with 25 Client Access Licenses (CALs). The corresponding price for SQL 7 EE is US$8,009.

Web price increase. Companies using SQL Server on public Web sites must buy one or more per-processor licenses for their servers. A single per-processor license is US$4,999 for SQL 2000 Standard and US$19,999 for EE (estimated retail). This is more expensive than the now-discontinued Internet Connector license, which cost US$2,999 per processor. On the other hand, per-processor licenses cover all users, whereas an Internet Connector license didn’t cover employees or partners of the company that owned it.

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Updated: July 9, 2020 (June 15, 2009)

Analyst Report Archived

Pricing and Licensing

The Desktop Optimization Pack (DOP) is licensed in an unusual fashion: it is available only in subscription form, and customers must have Software Assurance (SA), Microsoft’s software maintenance plan, covering the Windows client OS on every PC that uses any component of the DOP. Microsoft does not sell the DOP components separately, although some related software is still available outside SA, such as Application Virtualization (App-V) for Terminal Services, and Sysinternals, a set of utilities related to DART.

Customers will pay approximately US$6 to US$10 a year per PC for the DOP and US$28 and US$54 per year per PC for SA on the Windows client OS, depending on their volume agreements. However, SA may be purchased only with new licenses; it cannot be purchased for existing licenses. Customers who want SA on the Windows client OS have the following options:

Add SA coverage to a Windows OEM license that comes with a new PC; customers have up to 90 days after the purchase of the PC to

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