I was looking at licencing around development machines. I thought I was pretty comfortable in understanding it and then I saw this statement "Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN does not include Exchange Server or SharePoint Server.".
Now it doesn't affect my client but I know it affects a lot of Microsoft partners. I have been under the assumption that MSDN Professional included SharePoint Server standard and enterprise. You have to have the premium or ultimate editions.
Each test that access your non-production (covered by MSDN) would need I guess the ultimate edition as well. Perhaps the testing licence covers this.
But pretty expensive, as an example if you had 3 devs, 2 testers, 1 architect and 3 BA's and a PM (They all access the SharePoint test sites covered by MSDN). This would require 10 premium or ultimate MSDN licences. In the UK assuming these are new MSDN premium subscriptions (+- £3500 each) this comes in at a wopping £35K; for a small project and this is the dev licencing, it seems very high. I really dislike the complexity in Microsoft licencing.
It would actually be cheaper to by 6 MSDN licences for the devs, testers & architect and pay for the SharePoint 2010 standard server licences (£2000/VM), buy OS and buy a coupls of CAL's.
Honestly, why doesn't Microsoft make licencing simpler. Additionally charging a Project Manager and end users for MSDN for looking at non-production sites £3500 is crazy.
John Stover has explained licencing for SharePoint pretty well in his series of posts on licencing SharePoint.
More info on SharePoint Licencing
Now it doesn't affect my client but I know it affects a lot of Microsoft partners. I have been under the assumption that MSDN Professional included SharePoint Server standard and enterprise. You have to have the premium or ultimate editions.
Each test that access your non-production (covered by MSDN) would need I guess the ultimate edition as well. Perhaps the testing licence covers this.
But pretty expensive, as an example if you had 3 devs, 2 testers, 1 architect and 3 BA's and a PM (They all access the SharePoint test sites covered by MSDN). This would require 10 premium or ultimate MSDN licences. In the UK assuming these are new MSDN premium subscriptions (+- £3500 each) this comes in at a wopping £35K; for a small project and this is the dev licencing, it seems very high. I really dislike the complexity in Microsoft licencing.
It would actually be cheaper to by 6 MSDN licences for the devs, testers & architect and pay for the SharePoint 2010 standard server licences (£2000/VM), buy OS and buy a coupls of CAL's.
Honestly, why doesn't Microsoft make licencing simpler. Additionally charging a Project Manager and end users for MSDN for looking at non-production sites £3500 is crazy.
John Stover has explained licencing for SharePoint pretty well in his series of posts on licencing SharePoint.
More info on SharePoint Licencing
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