IBM Announce Price Rise for Domino Server and Clients up to 32%
Wednesday 7th October, 2009Hi Folks,
Yesterday news regarding the new straitened out IBM Lotus Licenses looked really great at the first sight, I mean, free Designer, how cool is this?! (We'll speak in a minute, what free is really mean in a context)
No more all this dazzling license options: inotes or notes client, for or with collaboration, limited or full use, no one really understood them anyway. Thanks for straitening this out. Really!
But now for the sad part: this new easiness comes with its price. Or better, with a price rise.
See for yourself:
As you see, free Designer is not really free, but just 81% cheaper, but fair enough. But nearly everything else will get more expensive. Sure, you will be able to do more with it. But if you are just a web browser user, than you are facing a 32% rise for a questionable advantage that now you are allowed to use the Notes Client.
The price adjustments are effective as of 01.01.2010, so there is still time to act, if you are up to stock up on Domino Servers. Call your local Lotus Business Parter (yep, even me), to get a quote.
Yesterday news regarding the new straitened out IBM Lotus Licenses looked really great at the first sight, I mean, free Designer, how cool is this?! (We'll speak in a minute, what free is really mean in a context)
No more all this dazzling license options: inotes or notes client, for or with collaboration, limited or full use, no one really understood them anyway. Thanks for straitening this out. Really!
But now for the sad part: this new easiness comes with its price. Or better, with a price rise.
See for yourself:
| Price in EUR | Price from 01.01.2010 | change | |
| Designer | 816 | 154 | -81,13% |
| Notes Client | 150 | 154 | 2,67% |
| Inotes | 117 | 154 | 31,62% |
| Notes Messaging | 105 | 95,63 | -8,92% |
| Inotes Messaging | 73,66 | 95,63 | 29,83% |
| Enterprise Server Value Unit | 38,88 | 44,68 | 14,92% |
| Messaging Server Value Unit | 14,97 | 17,24 | 15,16% |
As you see, free Designer is not really free, but just 81% cheaper, but fair enough. But nearly everything else will get more expensive. Sure, you will be able to do more with it. But if you are just a web browser user, than you are facing a 32% rise for a questionable advantage that now you are allowed to use the Notes Client.
The price adjustments are effective as of 01.01.2010, so there is still time to act, if you are up to stock up on Domino Servers. Call your local Lotus Business Parter (yep, even me), to get a quote.
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