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SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 pricing released

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Microsoft today released the US pricing for Small Business Server 2008 & Essential Business Server 2008. Full details on the press release here.

In summary, the pricing of the new products is as follows:

  • Windows Small Business Server 2008 Standard Edition software, full boxed product, including five CALs, US$1,089; additional CALs US$77 each
  • Windows Small Business Server 2008 Premium Edition software, full boxed product, including five CALs, US$1,899; additional CALs US$189 each
  • Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Standard Edition software, including five CALs, US$5,472; additional CALs US$81 each
  • Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Premium Edition software, including five CALs, US$7,163; additional CALs US$195 each

Pricing is yet to be determined for Australia as we will examine factors such as the exchange rate, market penetration, customer demand etc before announcing the local price. More on this to come. The above prices also do not represent OEM, which is typically how these products are sold.

There are quite a few licensing improvements over the current Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 product including:

  • Customers will be able to purchase single client access licenses (CALs), so they will pay only for the exact number of employees using the product.
  • Customers can cost-effectively purchase a mix of Standard or Premium CALs, as appropriate to the technologies that individual employees are using.
  • CALs now apply to other copies of Windows Server, SQL Server or Exchange Server on the network, eliminating the need to purchase additional CALs.

Lots of other announcements overnight - watch this space - however I'd be interested in your feedback on the pricing.

Robbie

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
              As referenced last week, the long awaited public beta program for

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Re: the ISA comment from mescwb: We absolutely take your point that the removal of ISA from SBS 2008 Premium will adversely affect some customers. For those on SA, we'll have a make it right program in place - more details to come. For those Premium customers without SA, they will need to move to another firewall solution. That being said, the security features built into SBS 2008 (forefront, OneCare for Server & all the bits of Windows Server 2008 such as NAP) will help lessen the impact. Robbie

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I am amazed by the number of sbs shops STANDARD, or, who lacks ISA - with its surfing control/report and no sharepoint (and may be crm) publishing. I think this is the reason Cougar team retired ISA form the offer. I was unpleased by the fact Cougar does not include a license for ISA. Today we have 2k3 Premium with several rules. How I expect migrate all them to an xDSL router? url based rules? Groups/schedules? One of two things. The majority of the world uses sbs2k3 std and do not control employees surfing and use crm or sharepoint through rww (and the energy costs of this approach), OR they use another package to control surfing (may be squid?). I say that trying to figure out why MS pulled off the ISA fit in Cougar Premium. If we had (in Cougar) the right to run a VM of 2k8, why the heck not also give an ISA (or FFrontGateway) license right to that VM? Or at least create a qualifying promo sku with a discount over FF/ISA regular price, exclusively for cougar buyers (including oem), through SM Open. Having about 10 users in our sbs2k3 premium nowadays, and if decide to upgrade to Cougar have to buy a full ISA license to only have the control we now, lacks sense.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Re: vriyait's comment around pricing: Thanks for the feedback on the deck's Vijay - trying to get as much info out as possible. The OEM pricing for SBS & EBS will be a different matter. Without going into details, OEM pricing is set worldwide meaning all distributors pay the same US$ price. Of course they are allowed to sell the products for whatever they like, but it is up to them to manage the FX fluctuations. For Open, FPP & SPLA, the pricing is set in each subsidiary & based on a number of factors, of which FX is just one. Cheers, Robbie

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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