Software Licencing for Windows, Terminal and SQL Server

Buying a new Windows or SQL Server? Upgrading one? Want to get discounted licencing rather than standard shelf product? Licencing should be a simple affair with transparant pricing, but often you are locked into your suppliers and can't get competitive pricing, let alone up-to-date real advice on configuration.

For example, did you know that unlike the old days where SQL only needed to be licenced for the processor it accessed, it now has to be licenced for every processor that the underlying Windows Operating System accesses? That's quite a change and means that many systems are out of date and illegal (many organisations employ licencing audit software) and resolving this will blow your budgets way out.

However, you don't want to spend extra thousands without any real gain in power so often it is best to dig deeper into your requiremements - if you don't need anonymous internet access, you may not need a processor licence (or one for each processor!) - instead use a server licence with CALs (Client Access Licences). 100 Users accessing this on a 4-processor server would cost you less than £15,000 instead of the £20,000 for 4 x processor licences!

As an official Microsoft Partner we understand the make-up of systems, not just the sales and marketing. We are also an official reseller of systems with direct pricing of MOLP and other software licencing agreemements so we can quote you with smarter pricing and get discs and agreements shipped out directly to you next day. You can't get much simpler than that.

Visit our online Software Licence Shop for no-fuss pricing and ordering (by credit card or even Purchase Order for a ProForma Invoice) and contact us for any advice.