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Microsoft Licensing Prices Tipped To Fall
News As reported last week, a UK firm called Discount Licensing is buying software licences from companies that have gone into liquidation or have lost staff and reselling them to other companies. Discount Licensing is taking advantage of British...
[November 14, 2005, 16:10]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
News Shocked vendors have reacted angrily to the news that Disclic, through discount-licensing.com, has been able to sell second-hand software licences from insolvent or downsizing firms to other businesses with Microsoft's blessing.
[November 10, 2005, 15:00]
Second-hand Microsoft Licences Take Off
News Disclic has been able to sell over 2,500 second-hand software licences from insolvent or downsizing firms to other businesses through discount-licensing.com. We've had interest from America, Australia, India — which is quite surprising as we've...
[April 7, 2006, 16:00]
Oracle Does UK Government Deal
News Oracle has inked a three-year agreement to supply government agencies of the United Kingdom with database software and other products at a discount. The deal, which Oracle announced on Thursday, gives the United Kingdom the same volume discount on...
[February 7, 2003, 9:42]
MPs Reveal How To Save £100m On Microsoft Licences
News Negotiation was made difficult, said the MPs, because "Microsoft requires its customers not to reveal to third parties the level of discount they receive. Although the OGC clearly said it receives discounts from Microsoft, and indeed expects the...
[February 27, 2004, 11:05]
Microsoft Licences Too Expensive, Say Schools
News Uden said Microsoft 's business customers were already irked by the level of discount given to schools: "It's not charitable, but we do sell at a 75 percent discount compared with businesses. Schools do not get good value for money from current...
[January 13, 2006, 15:30]
Microsoft Fails To Quash Second-hand Software Market
News UK-based Discount-licensing.com has been trading since 2005, selling pre-owned Microsoft software that has come on to the market because of bankruptcy or other issues. Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk this week, Discount-Licensing (which used to trade under...
[March 6, 2008, 14:09]
Momentum Webcast: Microsoft Open Value Licensing Briefing (Level 100)
White Papers This webcast also explains how to take advantage of the Open Consolidation Discount Promotion, which enables to consolidate current Open License agreements into a single Open Value contract. If an organization has fewer than 250 desktop computers...
[October 5, 2007, 0:00]
Public Sector Wins New Volume Discounts From Microsoft
News The MoU works by pooling public sector volume licensing purchases to trigger bigger levels of discount. As part of a mooted new three-year deal, Microsoft will offer a software and support package at volume discount rates across the UK's public...
[August 18, 2004, 10:25]
MS Snubs UK On Windows XP Discounts
News Microsoft is to offer a discount of roughly £10 for home users and small businesses who want to install its upcoming Windows XP operating system on several PCs, but the UK will miss out on this offer for the time being.
[September 21, 2001, 8:00]
Office XP Service Pack Released
News Companies looking to continue buying Office at a discount had until 31 July to sign up for the new programme, called Licensing 6. Wednesday's update will be the first major change to Office XP since Microsoft fully implemented a new licensing...
[August 21, 2002, 11:27]
SCO Signs Up First Linux Licensee
News SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said the unnamed company paid a "slight discount" to the price SCO announced last week. SCO declined to say which company took out the licence or to reveal licensing specifics.
[August 12, 2003, 9:10]
Open Source 'pressuring Microsoft Pricing'
News It is not a discount, it is an offer to prove our viability to market," he said. Enterprises are able to negotiate increasingly better licensing deals with Microsoft as the company fights off competition from Linux and other open-source software...
[February 18, 2004, 16:50]
Microsoft Weeds Out Office XP Bugs
News Any student, including kindergarten through grade 12 or those being home schooled, qualify for the discount. Microsoft responded to slow upgrades in May by unveiling a controversial new licensing program that raised customers' costs anywhere from...
[December 14, 2001, 10:56]
IT Priorities Conference: One Week Left For Early Birds
News If you're planning to join your peers for networking and debate at the ZDNet IT Priorities conference in London's Park Lane Hotel next month, you have just one week left to book at the early bird discount rate.
[August 23, 2004, 17:45]
It Is Only True Up To A Point
Talkback The site www.discount-licensing.com is a good place to start except that they only deal with large multiple licenses. Thanks for the talkback. The first point to be clear on is that all you buy is a license to use the software.
[March 6, 2008, 15:33]
Microsoft Winds Down Windows NT Sales
News The software giant is no longer selling NT Server 4.0 via its volume licensing programmes, through which businesses can buy the operating system in bulk and with a discount, according to Microsoft's Web site.
[October 3, 2001, 9:14]
IWon Completes Excite.com Takeover
News InfoSpace and iWon split the assets of Excite.com in the Excite@Home bankruptcy proceedings last month for $10 million, a big discount compared with the $6.7 billion @Home paid for Excite in 1999. Under the deal, InfoSpace agreed to power the...
[December 28, 2001, 15:47]
Microsoft On Warding Off The Linux Threat
Talkback Also notable is the question about licensing costs and the response that it still doesnt matter how little you run, you still WONT get a discount. Check out the latest videocast from the Linux lab on port25.
[October 5, 2006, 8:27]
NHS Starts Desktop Linux Tests
News Granger made no secret of his anger at the cost of software licensing when speaking at a recent event, making barbed comments about Microsoft's reluctance to offer a bigger discount on 800,000 licences.
[December 8, 2003, 9:20]
