Microsoft tightening its grip on SPLA Partners
It’s official: Microsoft is hiking up the prices of SPLA licensing by 10% for software you can’t do without. As we noted last week, your SPLA Reseller is likely to add a margin on top of that. You can read more on that here: http://bit.ly/2wY8TP3
Let’s give you the rundown of how much more you’re going to be charged—at a minimum-for your licenses.
10%
That’s how much more you’ll be paying for most infrastructure SPLA licenses. Merry Christmas!
Following are the products that will experience the 10% price increase:
Windows Remote Desktop Services SAL
Windows Server Standard (Processor license)
Windows Server Datacenter (Processor license)
SQL Server Standard Core
SQL Server Enterprise Core
SQL Server Web
SQL Server Standard SAL
You will “get a break” on the Core Infrastructure Server Suite. It’s just a 5% hike for the Standard processor license and 7% for the Datacenter processor license.
This year, prices stay the same for Windows Server Standard and Datacenter Core licenses, but they’ll go up by 10% in 2019. Likewise, for Core Infrastructure Server Suite Core licenses, no hikes this year but a 7% hike for Datacenter Core and 5% for Standard Core will go into effect in 2019.
Oh, and as long as we’re looking ahead, be ready for a whopping 15% hike in 2019 when it comes to Windows Remote Desktop Services SAL. That is a 26.5% price increase over the next two years! Sneaky right? 10% on current price then another 15% on new 2018 price.
Here was a customer reaction to the news that we felt really captured the sentiment:
"Holy S*#&...not surprised, but S*#&!!"
Isn’t it nice that Microsoft gives you an entire 3 months for 2018 increases and 15 months to brace yourself for 2019 increases? And they still have the ability to increase prices on other products in 2019. You’ve got plenty of time consider and maybe even implement what Microsoft wants you to do: move some of your servers to Azure. What are your other choices?
If your choice is stay on SPLA or consider a public cloud move, we’ve got you covered.
Listen, you know that most your competitors are going to do the easy thing and just pass on the costs to their customers. Fortunately, there’s a way you can beat your competition by reducing your own licensing costs for Microsoft SPLA.
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As Always,