[CLUE-Talk] Companies Wary of new M$ licensing costs

[Jed S. Baer]

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/survey_02mar.cfm

Highlights:

* Only 12 percent of organizations say their firms have the necessary
funds to migrate to the Licensing 6.0 program, compared with 41 percent of
the respondents that say they lack the necessary funds to move to the new
licensing plan.

* Approximately 37 percent of businesses said they will not migrate to the
new Licensing 6.0 Program; while another 38 percent said they are
seriously contemplating switching to rival products to show their
disapproval of the plan.

* However, 51 percent of organizations said their experience negotiating a
new 6.0 contract with Microsoft and/or their Large Account Resellers was
negative.

Gotta be some number of these companies in the Denver area, eh?

jed
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