Hi I’m trying to work out the pricing for Domino and Notes clients and to be honest its not making much sense.
For instance if we have a dual core server running domino 7, for messaging and databases, what server type do we need and whats the cost?
I find it amazing that its so complicated trying to work out what you actually need to pay. Has someone from Microsoft’s licensing department started working for IBM?
Subject: Pricing confusion - help please
Heh heh. Yeah, we priced out two new servers yesterday to act as a (redundant/clustered) POP server for a new domain we are setting up. Our company buys the newest hardware technology available so that it will last more than a year or two. Right now that means a quad-core, dual processor server.
A server license that would have cost us less than 2 grand a year ago is now being quoted as $3900 - or $7800 for both servers!! You have GOT to be kidding me. For a stinking POP server that I could probably get for free somewhere else?!?
So we have 2 choices - buy 5-year-old servers to run our enterprise software on, or get a quote for Exchange. Sadly, we’ve gotten the quote. Not all of our Notes servers will RUN on antiquated equipment, and even as a die-hard Notes advocate (and ANTI-Microsoft person), I simply cannot justify that large of a raise in prices. I would imagine that our purely-IBM shop will be making the switch to Microsoft that our parent company has been pushing for for quite awhile now. We simply can’t justify that huge of a cost increase with no additional benefit.