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Thread ID: 67792 2006-04-06 02:43:00 Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition - Licences chiefnz (545) Press F1
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444341 2006-04-06 02:43:00 Hey guys, currently busy with a uni assignment and I'm a bit stuck with software applications.

I 'm recommending an install of MS Office 2003 Small Business Edition. The main office will be running a client/server network (MS Server 2003).

Here (www.imagef1.net.nz) is what the network setup looks like. The main office has a total of 6 workstations connected to it.

What I want to know is how many copies of MS Office 2003 SBE do I have to purchase? CanI buy 1 copy and run it off the server or do I need to buy a copy/licence for each workstation?

Any idea of the cost for each licence? I can't seem to get this info anywhere.

cheers

chiefnz
chiefnz (545)
444342 2006-04-06 03:57:00 You could buy an OEM copy for each workstation that needs to run office or get a Volume License copy (1 set of CD's) and a license for each workstation that needs to run office.

The cheaper option would be OEM but if they are existing workstations then you can't supply OEM as OEM has to be supplied with new hardware.
CYaBro (73)
444343 2006-04-06 04:04:00 Thanks for that, I was thinking about the OEM option as being the cheapest.

cheers

chiefnz
chiefnz (545)
444344 2006-04-06 06:08:00 Shouldn't you be talking to your friendly Microsoft software supplier. dolby digital (5073)
444345 2006-04-06 08:46:00 Cheapest would be 2 copies of Student and Teachers version.

Not legal, but certainly cheapest ...
godfather (25)
444346 2006-04-06 08:55:00 using limewire would be cheaper or you could try openoffice for free plod (107)
444347 2006-04-06 10:08:00 Another way to get cheap Microsoft software is to sign up as a Microsoft Partner then subscribe to the Action Pack.
Costs about $850, from memory, for the first year then about $650 each year after that.
You get pretty much every software title that Microsoft makes plus you can use Office / frontpage/ publisher / XP Pro / on 10 machines and you get 10 licenses for the server software. They also send you quartely updates with new titles. Basically you get about $40,000 (retail price) of software for stuff all.
CYaBro (73)
444348 2006-04-06 10:28:00 Another way to get cheap Microsoft software is to sign up as a Microsoft Partner then subscribe to the Action Pack.
Costs about $850, from memory, for the first year then about $650 each year after that.
You get pretty much every software title that Microsoft makes plus you can use Office / frontpage/ publisher / XP Pro / on 10 machines and you get 10 licenses for the server software. They also send you quartely updates with new titles. Basically you get about $40,000 (retail price) of software for stuff all.

I'm new I know, but this guy is helpful, nice.
Bee-Jay (10152)
444349 2006-04-07 02:53:00 I think that the installation is a hypothetical one for an assignment. So the cheapest solution, especially a non-legal one, would probably lose marks. Graham L (2)
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