Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote:

>>  [email protected]] On Behalf Of unix_fan
>> 
>>  Volume licensing = You pay for every single license, there is no "all 
>>   you can eat" flat rate.
> 
> How do you keep track of the correct number of licenses?
In a large org:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Software_Asset_Management

> What if you acquire a company, and they already had their own licenses?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Software_Asset_Management

(observation: whoever was the Borg in the transaction keeps and propagates 
their methods)

> Are you using AD to distribute software?  How does it keep track?
SCCM, for some value of "distribute", but there are plenty of choices in this 
space:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/SCCM

>>  >No extra cost to upgrade from 2007 to 2010?
>> 
>>  Dream on.
> 
> I suppose that depends on software assurance, right?  If you bought the
> licenses without software assurance, then there's an upgrade cost.  But if
> you have software assurance, then you've already paid the upgrade cost.
> Right?

You've answered your own question, i.e., follow your contractual obligations.
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