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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 7:34:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    In a bid to standardize and simplify pricing for its enterprise applications, Microsoft Corp. today rolled out new license and maintenance terms that will push new customers of its Dynamics business software toward user-based pricing. The new user-based pricing program will mean lower overall licensing costs for many customers such as companies with 15 or fewer users, said Gayle Hoshino, general manager for licensing at Microsoft's Business Solutions (MBS) group. Larger customers with more than 50 users "may see higher prices" as a result of the new licensing program, Hoshino told Managing Automation. The new pricing structure -- called the Business Ready Licensing Model -- will not necessarily impact existing Microsoft enterprise application customers who still have the option of continuing with the current licensing program which, for the most part, involves paying for the applications on a per-module basis. [Click to continue] |
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