After the Launch, Microsoft Sets the Price
By Jennifer deJong
December 1, 2005 —
Having released the long-awaited updates to its enterprise database and development environment, Microsoft last month also announced pricing for the new products, as well as for BizTalk 2006.
BizTalk 2006, expected early next year, starts at US$8,499 per server processor. The replacement to BizTalk 2004 costs $1,499 more than its predecessor, said Robert Wahbe, general manager for Microsoft’s connected systems division. But the price of the 2006 update includes 16 adapters—essentially precoded connectors for IBM DB2, Oracle Application Suite, PeopleSoft and TIBCO EMS, among other data sources. Earlier, adapters were priced separately, he said.
BizTalk 2006 will enable developers to create self-service portals designed to allow sales and other executives to access key business metrics, such as how many purchase orders have been approved. In the past, executives who wanted to get at such information had to ask developers to create custom reports by hand, Wahbe said. Also new is a feature that lets business users set up alerts that notify them when, for example, the number of approved purchase orders reaches a certain threshold.
Pricing for SQL Server 2005 remains unchanged from that announced earlier this year, although customers migrating to Microsoft’s enterprise database from IBM’s and Oracle’s databases will receive a 50 percent discount, said Kirsten Ward, Microsoft group product manager for SQL Server. The enterprise edition of SQL Server 2005, for business-critical applications, starts at $24,999 per server processor. Per-server-processor pricing starts at $5,999 for the standard edition (for medium-sized businesses), and $3,899 for the workgroup edition, aimed at small businesses. An express edition for students and hobbyists is available as a free download.
Pricing for Visual Studio 2005 also remains unchanged from that announced earlier this year. The professional edition, for corporate developers and ISVs, starts at $799, as does the Tools for Microsoft Office edition. The standard edition, for professional developers working alone, starts at $299, while the express edition for students and hobbyists costs $49.
Pricing for Visual Studio 2005 Team System, the role-based, life-cycle edition for architects, developers and testers, is as follows: Team Edition for Software Architects starts at $5,469 per license, for one to five licenses, as do Team Edition for Software Developers and Team Edition for Software Testers. Team Suite, which includes all three, starts at $10,939 per license. Foundation Server, the collaboration server on which Team System is based, starts at $2,799, and will not be available until the first quarter of 2006, Microsoft has said earlier.
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