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Volume Licensing, XP, Office, and a small business

  • 19-08-2005 10:32am
    #1
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi Guys,
    I'm setting up a proper networking/IT environment for a small business. At the moment they're running a mish-mash of systems from 98 to XP Home, with little or no networking.
    So I want to get them upgraded, but they want to keep their costs down (of course). Software licensing seems to be the most expensive issue.
    At the moment they have four users (with a machine each), but they're likely to expand by a couple of users in the short-term. I want to run XP Pro and Office 2003 Standard across the board.

    Would they/we be better off buying a volume license from MS for XP and Office, instead of buying an OEM or FPP, or does this work out generally more expensive when dealing on such a small scale? I can find plenty of info about different types of licences, but no actual costs.

    Cheers


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  • #2
    daywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭daywalker


    Company im working for uses this site for IT products, they have prices for 1-3 licences of xp pro

    http://www.pcsource.ie/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1060146
    €177 incl vat for single oem license

    and

    http://www.pcsource.ie/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1060145
    and €476 incl vat for up to 3 licenses, a saving of €55


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    What do they need 2003 for that earlier versions won't do ?
    For a lot of gerneral work office 97 on ebay might suffice !
    If they actually use the advanced features then you would need later versions.

    IIRC volume licenses start at 5 but can be moved off the PC, oem locks you into the replace cycle as you can't reuse the licenses later on. You might as well buy them - you can downgrade and you get rights for "the primary user" of a PC to put it on their laptop too. And AFAIK you can sell on the licenses later on.

    For windows until recently you might as well have stuck with the OEM since there were new versions out every time you needed to upgrade the PC's - not sure if there is anything must have in longhorn that will be delivered in the next 5 years.


  • #4
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    What do they need 2003 for that earlier versions won't do ?
    .....
    The crux of the matter here is that we're going to set them up with a professional job, good quality, but we've made it clear that only support we can give them is out of hours (we have real jobs). So as much as it possible, we want to be able to pass off the support to proper companies, so they're not high-and-dry when something goes wrong midday. Which is why we're buying the hardware from Dell :(

    As best I understand it, Office 2k and Win 2k are gone end-of-life, so support won't be forthcoming from Microsoft, which is why I'm looking at the lastest OS/Software.


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