Michael_Curator <http://e-piphanies.typepad.com/epiphanies/> writes *"Despite what you've heard, the online version of Office 2010 announced by Microsoft earlier this week won't be free to corporate users. Business customers will either have to pay a subscription fee or purchase corporate access licenses (CALs)<http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10002712/the-hidden-cost-of-microsofts-free-online-office-suite/>for Office in order to be given access to the online application suite (Microsoft already does this with email — the infamous Outlook Web Access). But wait — there's more! A Microsoft spokesperson told me that customers will need to buy a SharePoint server, which ranges from $4,400 plus CALs, or $41,000 with all CALs included, if they want to share documents created using the online version of Office 2010."
Read more <http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/18/1150234> * Regards Akash Deep Shakya "OpenAK" B.E. (Computer) | Kathmandu University http://www.akashdeepshakya.com.np akashakya at gmail dot com P.O.Box: 8975 EPC: 4235 ~ Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ~ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
