Many customers want to migrate from costly platforms such as Oracle, DB2, Informix, and Sybase. To help customers migrate, Microsoft is offering a limited-time promotion for customers1 interested in migrating from eligible database vendors to SQL Server 2005.
Offer
50% discount on SQL Server Enterprise Edition license, provided the customer buys regularly priced Software Assurance
50% discount on SQL Server CAL license, provided the customer buys regularly priced Software Assurance
25% discount on SQL Server Standard Edition license, provided the customer buys regularly priced Software Assurance
Eligible Licensing Programs
| • | Enterprise Agreement |
| • | Select License |
| • | Multi-year Open License |
| • | Open License Value |
| • | Open License |
Customer Eligibility
Eligibility limited to customers migrating from: Oracle Enterprise, Oracle Standard, IBM DB2 Enterprise, IBM DB2 Workgroup, Informix, Sybase ASE, Hitachi HiRDB, Fujitsu Synfoware, Natural/Adabas, C/Side, Hyperion Essbase, Business Objects, Cognos, Microstrategy, NCR Teradata, Progress, Centura, Gupta and SAS.
Next Steps
Contact your Microsoft account team or Reseller for more information
| 1 | This promotion is applicable to corporations and government entities only. It is not applicable for academia, ISVs, SPLAs, or charities. Discount is calculated from each waterfall level, so a customer at Select D gets the same percentage discount as a customer at Open NL.True up pricing is not available on these promotional SKU's –additional purchases after the promotion timeframe will need to be made on the standard SQL Server SKU’s. Promotion valid Sept 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008. |