Saturday, November 29, 2008

SharePoint Licensing

In the new web page for SharePoint for MOSS there is couple of pages that explains it in detail. I recommend you to review the FAQ page that resolves the common doubts in MOSS licensing:

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/how-to-buy/Pages/licensing-overview.aspx

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/how-to-buy/Pages/faq.aspx

These tables represent the license model as I understand it. I recommend that you take it as guidance and check it with your license provider or Microsoft representative.

Products

Product

Public price

Features

CAL Requirements

WSS

Free. Included in W2K3 license.

Basic collaboration

Review the W2K3 CAL requirements. Needs the External Connector for non-employees.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Server License

$4,424

Full equip for users with enterprise CAL.

Standard CAL does not include: BDC, Excel Services, Forms Services, Business Intelligence, Forms Server.

Only for employees. Each employee needs a Std. or Ent. CAL

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites

$40,943

Full equip

Non-employees don't need any CAL. Each employee needs a Std. or Ent. CAL

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Enterprise Edition), Server License

$57,670

Full equip

Only for employees. No need any CAL.

* Seems that this product is no longer available.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Standard Edition), Server License

$8,213

Not included: BDC, Excel Services, Forms Services, Business Intelligence, Forms Server.

Index limited to 500.000 documents.

Only for employees. No need any CAL.


Recommended for +40 standard CALs.

Microsoft Forms Server 2007, Server License

$4,424

Only forms

Only for employees. Each employee needs a Forms CAL

Microsoft Forms Server 2007 for Internet sites

$22,118

Only forms

Non-employees don't need any CAL. Each employee needs a Std. or Ent. CAL

Search Server Express

Free

All Enterprise Search features except BDC Search and limited to only one server. Not scalable.

No need any CAL.

Search Server

Not public?

All Enterprise Search features except BDC Search.

No need any CAL.


Update 05/06/2009: Seems that "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Enterprise Edition), Server License" is no longer available and then you need to purchase a CAL for each user inside the organization.

Client Access License (CAL)

Each SharePoint CAL needs a SQL Server CAL if SQL Server is not licensed per server. The same is applicable to Windows 2003 Server.

Product

Public price

Features

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL

$94

Not included: BDC, Excel Services, Forms Services, Business Intelligence.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL

$75

Full Equip and needs an Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL ($94)

Office Forms Server 2007 CAL

$54

Only forms

Office SharePoint Designer 2007

Free (since April 2009)

The tool to customize SharePoint 2007.


All information has extracted from Office official page:

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Alex..

Paula - Thanks for the posting. For only information..few days ago I used Sharepoint 3 hosting service with asphostportal.com . It starts from $4.99/month, we already can start using Windows Sharepoint Services.

Anonymous said...

Why buy a license or cals ever? The free WSS has plenty of collaboration tools. You can setup plenty of WSS applications with no license that are fully internet accessible.

non-employees can simply be added to active directory, given limited network guest permissions ... and have full use of the sharepoint site.

To quote our business analyst ... "I've never seen a sharepoint system that cost less than a million dollars in licenses and development" ... until mine.

Àlex said...

Anonymous,
You have missunderstood the licensing of WSS.

WSS is not free licensed. Is included in the license of Windows 2003 o Windows 2008 and the CALs are included in the licenses of your XP or Vista clients.

For internet based sites you need a special license of Windows 2003 and the internet connector (you should to contact with Microsoft to get it) and a separate back end server to store the data. Obviusly the license price of all is cheaper than MOSS.

About the functionalities MOSS privides many more things like Web Content Management, BDC, integrated search (scalable), forms server, My Site, etc that you can emulate with free components on codeplex (without support) or you can develop it (increasing the final price).

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