Licensing for small/medium business (5-250 PCs)

What is Microsoft Open License?

Microsoft Open License is a simple and flexible software volume licensing program designed for customers who order as few as five licenses. Open License benefits include:

Choose the Open License Program that's right for you

The Microsoft Open License program offers you four great ways to save on Microsoft products:

Open Business Designed for companies looking to save money (as compared to Full Packaged Product) without a large up-front volume commitment. The initial order is five or more licenses for any combination of Microsoft products.

Open Volume Designed for companies looking to take advantage of volume discounts greater then those offered under Open Business who are in a position to place a minimum initial order of 500 points within a product pool - Applications, Systems or Servers.

Open Value Designed for organisations with as few as five desktops. It offers all the extra benefits of Software Assurance, which includes access to the most current Microsoft software during the term of your agreement, and the ability to spread payments annually.

Hosted Solutions Designed for companies looking to "pay as you go" for software and have access to the latest versions. Service Providers license Microsoft products on a monthly basis and provide services and hosted applications to their customers for a monthly fee.

Is your organisation multinational? Here's a way to extend your purchasing power.

Learn how you can share your Open License pricing levels with eligible affiliates throughout a geographic region. For details download the Open License Affiliate Relationships document.

Microsoft Software Assurance:

More value. More assistance. More manageable.
Software Assurance provides volume licensing customers the right to run any new versions of the covered product issued during the period of their Software Assurance coverage. Software Assurance also gives you automatic access to support, tools, and training to help deploy new software efficiently, flexibly and cost effectively.

Open License management tool:

eOpen - Online license tracking and delivery (US link)
eOpen is an online tool that lets Open License customers electronically manage their orders. eOpen allows customers to receive order confirmation information electronically and to view their license order history.