Re: Microsoft Select - Software Assurance RENEWAL OPTION

The cost of Software Assurance is pro-rated on an annual basis. So
when a department buys a license together with SA during a Select
contract period, the cost goes down the later in the contract period
the purchase is made. The granularity is annual, so it's possible a
department could pay for a year and get less than a year of coverage.
But that might be acceptable to a department, depending on
circumstances.

--Bob

At 10:47 AM -0800 1/14/05, Tom Holub wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:42:04AM -0800, Bob Callaway wrote:
>>
>> Under the Select program, the maintenance option for software --
>> called Software Assurance (SA) -- is tied to the ending date of each
>> renewal. This means that current subscriptions for SA will expire on
>> 1/31/05. To continue SA for the new term of the Select agreement,
>> departments must purchase SA for the new contract period. Renewals
>> must be in the hands of TRC no later than 2/24/05.
>
>So does this mean that anyone who purchased Software Assurance within
>the past 18 months or so, completely wasted their money?
>
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>Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
>College of Letters & Science
>249 Campbell Hall
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