Tag: assurance

  • MS Software Assurance Versus Red Hat Network

    MS Software Assurance Versus Red Hat Network

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    It’s rather interesting, really. I know many people who hate both Microsoft’s Software Assurance plan and Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network. They’re similar plans. You pay your money and you get all of the goodness both companies can give you for their respective software for a year or three. But… Read more

  • Microsoft Software Assurance: Opportunities Lurking for Resellers?

    Jacqueline Emigh

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    How can Microsoft do a better job with its Software Assurance licensing customers? Interviews with partners and users point in several directions: more compelling product releases, lower SA pricing, a less complex service model and major marketing improvements on Microsoft’s part. Meanwhile, some of the biggest fishes in Microsoft’s licensing pond see opportunities for smaller… Read more