Everyone goes through a reseller regardless. That said I expect your negotiating power with that volume is somewhere around 0. :)
Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 7 Price On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Tim Vander Kooi <tvanderk...@expl.com> wrote: > You negotiate your SA renewals with Microsoft the same way you can > negotiate price with them up front for Licenses and SA. How big do you have to be before MSFT starts to care? When I checked a few years ago, for my current employer (120 people, ~ 75 computers), we were too small to have any negotiating leverage. MSFT told us to call a reseller (e.g., Dell, CDW). Reseller quotes their standard price. :-( On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Tim Vander Kooi <tvanderk...@expl.com> wrote: > [Software Assurance] also makes a great deal of sense when you have an > EA or similar since they basically throw the Client OS licenses and SA > in for free. Sounds like this might be a "large vs small company" thing. Enterprise Agreement is way out of our reach. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
