Microsoft releases Greenwich pricing
Tags :Announcement
It appears the pricing has hit the airwaves
for the Microsoft attempt at enterprise instant messaging. Reading
up on this
full article, here was a couple
highlights.
Microsoft Reveals Greenwich Pricing
As a solution for internal communications, the product's price
point alone stands to make it a significant challenge to
enterprise IM offerings from Yahoo! and AOL, as well as many
of the third-party IM gateways like FaceTime, IMlogic and
Akonix -- which log and manage public IM, making them safe
for use within the enterprise. Typically, those solutions begin
at about $30 per user per year. The Live Communications
Server's starting price also is competitive with Lotus Instant
Messaging (formerly Sametime), currently the market leader in
enterprise IM deployments.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software titan said the server will
have an estimated price of $929, with Client Access Licenses
(CALs) coming in at $34.95. Microsoft said final pricing will be
based on the volume of the purchase.
While Microsoft said it is not ready to disclose when the
product will be released to manufacturing, it did say it is on
track to ship in the third quarter.
There is some more to the article about protocols and dreams (did I say that?)of how it will interact with the public MSN system. Of course Ed Brill and I posted similar topics about 5 minutes apart. Great minds, I tell ya.
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On Monday, August 11th, 2003 by Chris Miller
