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. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
