Mobile personnel with 15% more and more the objectives of Microsoft ride company user rights licence

Microsoft target the mobile teams, with a 15% increase in licence fees, mainly for companies who have employees who use smart phones and other mobile devices in their work.

According to Mary Jo Foley, the new licence agreement enters into force on 1 December for the clients with the user option for its "client access license" (CAL). The user CAL is intended for companies who have employees who use iPhones, iPads, tablets and other devices. As more people bring their own devices to work, the user CAL became more popular. The other option is a device CAL, which allows multiple people to access a device such as a PC at the nursing station.

So far, the licensing costs were the same for the user and Device CALs. Since December 1, the following products will be affected by the fee increase to the user CAL license:

Bing Maps server CALCore CAL CAL SuiteEnterprise SuiteExchange Server Standard and Enterprise CALsLync Server Standard and Enterprise CALsProject Server CALSharePoint Server Standard and Enterprise CALsSystem Center 2012 Client Management SuiteSystem Center Configuration ManagerSystem Centre Endpoint ProtectionVisual Studio TFS CALWindows Multipoint Server CALWindows Server CALWindows Server RDS, RMS, Terminal Services CAL

According to the blog of SoftCat, "customers who operate the user CAL with a multi-year model Microsoft based on volume license agreements and contracts (as an Enterprise Agreement [EA], Enterprise subscription, Open value subscription and open perpetual value) will retain their prices negotiated until the end of their period of application of the contract."

Under the new terms, virtually any client will face upwards when renewing or purchasing a new license.

How to deal with this licensing change? There are a number of options, but it provider that Shi said in a blog post that there are three things to consider. We must think with the number of devices on the network, how many to expect that light up in the future and simplicity to just employees do their jobs.

It is clear that Microsoft sees a new source of huge revenue with mobile devices on the labour market. Other vendors are sure to follow suit with the licenses. All of this poses a thorny problem and raises the question of what providers work in the future. With license like those, it will pay to shop around.

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