Pricing and Licensing FAQ

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Licensing for Commerce Server 2009 is structured in same manner as Commerce Server 2007 SP2, meaning it’s a “per processor” license. When licensing Commerce Server 2009, you will receive the new features (Commerce Foundation and SharePoint Commerce Services), in addition to a version of Commerce Server 2007, which Commerce Server 2009 depends on. You receive Commerce Server 2007 SP2 as part of the license because it must be installed first in order to use the Commerce Server 2009 license. 

Customers who currently have Microsoft Software Assurance as part of their Volume Licensing Agreement with Microsoft are entitled to upgrade from Commerce Server 2007 to Commerce Server 2009 at no additional cost.

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Commerce Server 2009 is designed to install on the following platform configurations:

Note:  Commerce Server 2007 is included with your license for Commerce Server 2009.

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There are two versions of Commerce Server 2009: Commerce Server 2009 Standard and Commerce Server 2009 Enterprise.  The differences between these two versions are:

Commerce Server 2009 Enterprise includes the following features (which are not available in Commerce Server 2009 Standard):

Commerce Server 2009 Enterprise has no restrictions on deployment topology and site set up.

The following table summarizes the two versions:

Commerce Server 2009 Feature (32-bit and 64-bit)	Benefit	Standard	Enterprise
Functionality
New Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation	Unifies the run-time calling model across all Commerce Server systems, introduces new commerce entities, built-in multi-channel awareness and meta data for commerce entities.
SharePoint Commerce Services	30 Web Parts and controls (including source code for extensibility), contemporary skin out-of-the-box Web site, integrated into Microsoft SharePoint®, with optional sample data.
Marketing, Campaigns, Direct Mail	Allows for different marketing campaigns for different brands or different customer segments – or both. Comes with built-in discounts, advertisement management, and a direct mailer, with expression-based lists; all with multi-lingual support.
Sharing of Catalog and Marketing Campaigns Across Web sites	Easily manage multiple sites from multiple catalogs, or a single site with multiple catalogs.
Content Staging	Allows for coordinated transactional content, Web application settings, and business data replication from a “staging” environment to production environment.
Data Warehousing and Analytics Functions	Offers an integrated data warehouse across customer profile, catalog, order, marketing, and Web log data.
Deployment
Can Deploy to Production Environment	Production license.
Side-by-side Deployment with Commerce Server 2007 SP2	Install Commerce Server 2009 into existing Commerce Server 2007 SP2 deployments with no changes; and incrementally take advantage of the new features.
Commerce Server Applications per Commerce site	Specific “applications” within Commerce Server can be created for better performance handling.	1	Unlimited
Maximum Number of Physical Processors per Server (can be hyper-threaded or dual-core)		2	Unlimited (Based on OS Max)
Number of Physical Servers per Web Farm		2	Unlimited
Number of Commerce Server Sites per Server	Specific “sites” within Commerce Server can be created for better performance handling.	10	Unlimited (Bound only by hardware or IIS limits)

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To license Commerce Server 2009 in a virtualized environment (that is, installing Commerce Server on a virtual server), the software licensing requirements vary by version of the product: Standard Edition versus Enterprise Edition (EE).

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The product will appear on the Microsoft Price List effective April 1, 2009. See Pricing and Licensing for more information on how to license Commerce Server 2009.