How does SPS 2010 licensing map to MOSS licensing?

Question

Hi,

I have a question in regards to licensing.   A client of ours has not yet purchased MOSS 2007.   They want to want to get rolling on a SharePoint deployment but want some future direction as to how licensing in 2010 will be handled.  Basically their questions revolve around do they buy the Standard or Enterprise CAL today or not and depending on which they purchase how does that map to what you get with 2010.

Anyone know?
 
Alan

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Answer 1

Hi Alan,

We haven't published all of the licensing information for SharePoint 2010 yet. Further information will be available between now and the SharePoint 2010 release in the first half of 2010. We’ll be adding detailed content to http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com in the coming weeks on the specific differences between Standard and Enterprise. In the meantime, here’s some general information about SharePoint 2010 licensing that was presented at the SharePoint Conference in October 2009.

The Standard CAL is for organizations looking to deploy a business collaboration platform across all types of content. Use the core capabilities of SharePoint to manage content and business processes, find and share information and expertise, and simplify how people work together across organizational boundaries. Here are some example features for each workload available with Standard CAL. 

·        Sites (e.g., personalized portal content, MySites)

·        Communities (e.g., enterprise wikis, blogs, ratings, folksonomy)

·        Content (e.g., content management, documents management, records management, rich media management, legal holds)

·        Search (e.g., enterprise search)

·        Insights

·        Composites

 

The Enterprise CAL is for organizations looking to enable advanced scenarios for end users to locate, create and act on data and documents in disparate sources from within a familiar and unified infrastructure. Use the Enterprise CAL capabilities of SharePoint to fully interoperate with external line-of-business applications, Web services, and Microsoft Office client applications; make better decisions with rich data visualization, dashboards, and advanced analytics; and build robust forms and workflow-based solutions.  Example step up features include:

·        Excel Services

·        PerformancePoint Services

·        Visio Services

·        Access Services

·        InfoPath Forms Services

·        Client LOB integration / LOB web parts

·        Advanced charting

·        Custom reports

·        FAST Search use rights (requires FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)

 

Again, please check back to our official site http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com soon for a detailed feature comparison.

Regards,
Paul

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Answer 2

Thanks Paul,

I figured nothing concrete was out yet, but at least this gives some guidance.   Looks like more or less the 2007 Std and Ent CALs will pretty much map to the 2010 Std and Ent CALs with some minor additions to the Std offering.

Alan

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