Hi:
I am trying to figure out the costs of using Microsoft for an office
of 40 people. I can't seem to get any hard figures. There is the
software itself but then there are licenses and those depend upon the
number of users and whether the license is a Select, Open or
Enterprise. I went to cdw.com for the prices anyway here is my
comparison.
"Microsoft Office Costs"
Description Price No. Total
"Microsoft Office 2003 Standard" $379.80 10 $3798.00
"Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Open $359.53 30 $10785.90
Software License Level C - 25 CAL"
"Microsoft Select Exchange Server $900.32 1 $900.32
License & SA"
"Microsoft MS Exchange Server 2003 $6847.76 1 $6847.76
Enterprise Edition - complete package"
"Microsoft MS Office Access 2003 - $217.97 5 $1089.85
complete package"
"Microsoft SLD MS Office Access 2003 $158.40 15 $2376.00
license"
"Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard $4687.3 1 $4687.36
with 1 Processor License"
Total $30485.19
"Libranet / *BSD Office Costs"
Description Price No. Total
"Libranet 3.0 corporate CD purchase. $154.95 5 $774.75
MULTIPLE USERS: You are welcome to
install Libranet on as many machines
as you like."
"FreeBSD Sendmail/Postfix MTA" Free
"OpenBSD 3.6 firewall" $55.00 1 $55.00
"FreeBSD or OpenBSD MySQL server" Free
"Training costs and materials. $10000.00
Hire the Pritchard's or J.T to do
the training. Basic UNIX commands,
printing, Office Tools and using
MySQLCC"
"Cost to write custom PERL/Shell $8000.00
scripts to use with the MySQL database."
Total $18829.75
NOTE: The Microsoft prices do not include firewalls or anti-virus
software. Also, unlike Libranet, Microsoft has no preformance
guarantee.
My question: Is this fairly accurate?
TIA,
Jonathan
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