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Good grief. $41,000 for a full set of CALs to run SharePoint. Does anyone know if that's per server or for a given site? I understand Microsoft's motivation

Good grief. $41,000 for a full set of CALs to run SharePoint. Does anyone know if that's per server or for a given site? I understand Microsoft's motivation in trying to sell this but it's hard to fathom the reasoning of anyone who would buy it.

dpritchett 17y ago
Sharepoint 3.0 was free to anyone with a Windows Server 2003 license. Once you build out that infrastructure a bit the marginal costs to upgrade into MOSS (SharePoint 2007/2010) start to look ok. I personally prefer more socially focused solutions (e.g. Jive) but SharePoint is making huge strides as both a collaboration backbone and as a document management platform. Some Fortune 500 companies are now building new intranet apps around SharePoint rather than standalone. There are a number of off the shelf solutions available as SharePoint "web parts".