multicompany open licence or seperate boxed versions?

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I now have 2 conflicting replies to whether to purchase a multico licence or
seperate boxed versions of MS Access. I have 7 users.

Any advances on ideas?

So far I can purchase a boxed version for £129+VAT and will need a further 6
copies.

Just trying to determine whether to organise a multicompany version but am
finding it difficult to gain info/costs on this.
 
Suza said:
I now have 2 conflicting replies to whether to purchase a multico licence or
seperate boxed versions of MS Access. I have 7 users.

Any advances on ideas?

So far I can purchase a boxed version for £129+VAT and will need a further 6
copies.

Just trying to determine whether to organise a multicompany version but am
finding it difficult to gain info/costs on this.
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Here's a link to MS open license info. I've always found this to be very
confusing.

http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/programs/open/default.mspx

gls858
 
Since this is a world-wide newsgroup, what is available in my area
(Australia) may not be available in your area. That's why I advised you to
check with you regular / local vendors or Microsoft Web site for UK.

Generally multiple-license package will be cheaper than buying retail boxes
since the per-license fee will be at a discounted rate (and at least, you
don't have to pay for 7 copies of the set-up media). A minor hick-up is
that the number of licenses probably goes up in some fixed increment like 5,
10, 20, 50 ...

You should also consider whether to buy only Access or Office Professional
which includes Access.

And finally, if you only need Access for the users to use the data for
day-to-day operations, you may want to get (1 copy only) of the Office
Developer's Edition (known by various names depending on the Office version)
which licenses you to distribute the run-time files with your database so
that users who don't have the Access software can use the database. This
may be the most economical method if only one person "develops" the
database(s) and the rest are database users only.
 
Van T. Dinh wrote:

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And finally, if you only need Access for the users to use the data for
day-to-day operations, you may want to get (1 copy only) of the Office
Developer's Edition (known by various names depending on the Office version)
which licenses you to distribute the run-time files with your database so
that users who don't have the Access software can use the database. This
may be the most economical method if only one person "develops" the
database(s) and the rest are database users only.
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Or, in this case, you might instead consider subscribing to MSDN for
your 1 or 2 developers, as it may contain the Office Developer's
Edition. (I don't know for sure, and there are several versions of MSDN,
at different prices, but a full MSDN subscription includes a ton of
software.)

-- Vincent Johns <[email protected]>
Please feel free to quote anything I say here.
 
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