Big business run big servers and have large number of licences but there are more small businesses who contribute more overall to Microsoft coffers but have a small voice. The question is how to increase revenue for Microsoft and keep the shareholders happy.
How to take more off you PART1
The first action was to remove Small Business Server, this gave small business all the toys the big boys have but for small business, Server, Exchange, SQL etc. at a fraction of the cost. If you want to replace SBS you need to find an extra few thousand £pounds.
How to take more off you PART2
So finding the extra £thousands is not an option, now being Microsoft you are arrogant enough to believe that you are the only solution. If they cant buy a. from you they will have to buy b. Enter the cloud, ideal solution, monthly payments to spread the cost, what every small business wants and Microsoft assume that you are too busy, lazy or unintelligent to do the maths.
So you sign up for the cloud?
Remember according to Microsoft, its your only option after all and you want 5 office’s and 5 e-mail boxes and 5 online storage. That’s £9.50 x 5= £47.50 a month for office and exchange e-mail in the cloud which is £2,850 over five years and you still haven’t got a central file server. Add a shared drop box account and that goes up to £7,950
But I get the latest versions and its available everywhere?
In five years, you will get one extra version over the outright buyer and when the Internet goes down or is unavailable you’ve got nothing and all work stops.
OK, what’s the alternative?
Just a quick thought, you actually want to write letters and make spreadsheets, you don’t actually want Word and Excel. Why not buy something that works the same for £40 or does the job for nothing? We can supply all of these alternatives or if you insist we can supply Microsoft too, but guess what, Microsoft give us more commission if we sell you the cloud version that the boxed product, now why would they do that, do you suppose?
Give us a call and we will show you how to save tons of money with your computing, what do we get out of it? well we make more money by taking less from you and we get a loyal customer too.