[GRLUG] WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

[Tim Schmidt]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> A few hundred for Ultimate?  That's far less than a day's billable
> work.  Not even a drop in the bucket. :)

Multiplied by how many workstations?  Plus Office, Server, and various
other application licenses most businesses end up with.  It's easy for
a small business to pay $30k / year in Microsoft licenses.  Larger
businesses can cost an order of magnitude more.  Just an example, it
costs a minimum of $10k just to connect a SharePoint server to the
internet - assuming you've already paid for the software.

One desktop license isn't a big deal, but one desktop license for
everyone in the company, along with associated infrastructure can be
enough to hire another employee.

--tim