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Microsoft has the best definition as they have been in this business for years now. They define a SPLA in the following way, "A licensing program that enables service providers and ISVs with a hosted offering to license Microsoft products on a monthly basis to provide services and hosted applications to their end customers."
Some qualifying questions for entry into a SPLA program might be the following -
1. Do you provide software services and hosted apps on a rental, subscription or services basis?
2. Are you a hosting provider, an ASP, a SI or an ISV that provides software as a service?
3. Is one of your primary objectives to avoid up-front license fees and minimum commitments?
4. Is your goal to maximize the number of end-user served from the same underlying software?
5. Will your customers accept not owning the software or having it located at their site?
If you can answer YES to most of these questions then most likely a SPLA program would fit your business model.
According to Microsoft there are many benefits to using a SPLA. Because the license is subscription based over time it will often cost more than a perpetual license for the same software. However, the benefits far outweigh the cost if the business model is structured correctly.
The following is a list of benefits Microsoft uses for their SPLA program -
• No Upfront Costs
• Most Current Product Versions - You have access to the most current versions of the products available in the program
• Pay Based On Usage - Monthly usage-based cost means you pay only for what was made available the previous month
• Worldwide Distribution - Use Microsoft licensed products to sell your services in any part of the world
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Apr 01, 2009
Anonymous says:
This would be great. Judging from the response, I'm not sure how much interest ...This would be great. Judging from the response, I'm not sure how much interest there is and i could not see the poll results, but it's a great idea. Especially considering how closely you are tied with MS Product lines all of which are SPLA.
Apr 01, 2009
Scott Swanburg says:
Unfortunately we can't share the poll results as this is for internal research b...Unfortunately we can't share the poll results as this is for internal research but thank you nonetheless for your candid comments. Service Providers seem to resonate with an offering of XenApp on TS as we provide so much additional value... just as we do in the Enterprise.
Apr 15, 2009
Anonymous says:
Does anyone knows how MS SPLA works with XenDesktop with XP as OS? Or is that ev...Does anyone knows how MS SPLA works with XenDesktop with XP as OS? Or is that even allowed? I can not find any info on that.
Thanks
Apr 16, 2009
Scott Swanburg says:
Microsoft does not currently support the entire desktop with their SPLA program....Microsoft does not currently support the entire desktop with their SPLA program. They recently announced a program called the Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop or VECD which enables the virtualization of the desktop but there are terms and conditions around this offering that should be looked at carefully. Brian Madden does a good job of highlighting the policies and use of the VECD license in his blog "Microsoft reconsiders virtualization rules for Vista: Now you can (legally) run it in a VM, lowers VECD pricing"
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