Hey guys
I’ve recently started working for a small company as part of their sales force and I’ve also received the task to replace the previous IT guy.
I have experience in the IT field, having successfully managed a domain/exchange roll out at my previous job so I managed to get increased pay out of it!
However, I’m noticing that all the software they use apart from a few exceptions isn’t too legit.
As we all know, that’s not the best of ideas so I’d like to make a pitch to my boss to buy legit licenses for everything. It also might not be a bad idea to upgrade the server to a 64bit 2008 SMB server since we’re growing at a pretty good pace, even in these difficult times.
This then seems that this could be an ideal situation for a Volume Licensing option since they have 11 laptops, 4 workstations and 1 server and the only legit software I’ve seen is the 11 laptop Windows (all OEM) and the server software. They also have 3 TCAL (legacy from XP Pro purchases) that are legit. That means there would be 16 Office 2007 Standard, 4 Vista Business, 3 Terminal Server SMB 2008 CAL (one workstation doesn’t remotely access the server) and 16 Standard Exchange CAL that would need to be bought.
I however would not like to come to my boss with a bill of 20k for software he thinks he already owns so I’d like to know what kind of a deal vs retail pricing I could expect to see on that kind of volume so I can present him with a cost estimate of how much this all would set him back. At my previous job, all software purchasing was incremental so I never had the opportunity to work with VL so I don’t know much about it. I don’t know much about SA either so would that be worthwhile ? How much does SA usually cost compared to the software pricing ?
Thanks!
