{"id":625,"date":"2008-05-14T09:07:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T08:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2008-05-14T09:07:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T08:07:29","slug":"small-business-server-2008-less-for-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/625-small-business-server-2008-less-for-more.html","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Server 2008: less for more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/essential\/sbs\/prodinfo\/pricing.mspx\" target=\"_blank\">announced prices for SBS 2008<\/a> are substantially higher than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver2003\/sbs\/howtobuy\/pricing.mspx\" target=\"_blank\">those for SBS 2003<\/a>. Client Access Licenses (CALS) for standard edition users are slightly lower than before, but a new CAL for premium users is remarkably expensive: $189.00, on top of the cost of the client Windows OS itself. In the old scheme, an SBS CAL applied to both Standard and Premium users and had a single price of $97.80.<\/p>\n<p>How price sensitive is SBS? From what I see, the cost of installing and configuring SBS is usually more than the license cost, presuming a business gets a specialist to do this. In addition, the announced figures do not cover cheaper OEM editions. In other words, probably not very price sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>This still strikes me as a surprising move. SBS 2008 has removed some features, including the ISA Server firewall. Further, SBS has more competition than before, both from Linux and from cloud-based offerings. Is this really the moment to hoist prices? Google will be pleased.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:396cfc12-f52a-427d-abb9-05bf6d7b0c3b\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/small%20business%20server\" rel=\"tag\">small business server<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/windows%20server%202008\" rel=\"tag\">windows server 2008<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/sbs\" rel=\"tag\">sbs<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announced prices for SBS 2008 are substantially higher than those for SBS 2003. Client Access Licenses (CALS) for standard edition users are slightly lower than before, but a new CAL for premium users is remarkably expensive: $189.00, on top of the cost of the client Windows OS itself. In the old scheme, an SBS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/625-small-business-server-2008-less-for-more.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Small Business Server 2008: less for more?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}