All Mgrs Mtg-2007.05.02-OSL Update

OSL Udpate by Margaret Berchtold New name: Software Licensing. All prior email addresses, urls still work Microsoft campus agreement for depts.: $55. On the website: Shop ? Vendor ? Microsoft Corp ? Campus Agreement FTE. 3 new products: Desktop Optimization Pack, SoftGrid Device CAL for Terminal Servers, Windows Terminal Server Device CAL. Work at Home rights on the last two, which you can?t get through the Select license. Click on Product Features for information on the campus? license agreement. You have until Saturday May 5 to purchase. No work at home rights on Windows unless you can guarantee that all boot-ups are work related. Software Licensing prefers that staff purchase their own license (~$59) to avoid issues. Last year: $44. This year: $55 which includes the 3 additional products. This can be purchased on FY 2008 budget ? use a purchase order and indicate ?New Fiscal Year.? Novell: we will continue to get the Value Bundle: ZenWorks, for server and desktop, SuSE, Open Enterprise Server. Hospital wants to add the Zen Linux mgt, Storage Manager and Cluster Services. Price remains the same as last year: see the website. Depts can pay a lump sum (and not count for each product used). DirXML is still there but is now called ________. No additional cost to run Identity Management. Depts can get their own copy. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: just $55 per server. No limit on clients. Software Licensing news mailing lists ? subscribe to them to be notified when there are new products, licensing changes, etc.