SharePoint 2010 license! Confused, some details

I wanted to work on a quick license cost for one of the customer, where I realize that the software licensing cost is not straight forward. There are many tweaks and twist and how your implementation is planned. I thought of simplifying it a bit with following try

Thus as in MOSS 2007, we have following high level license breakup for SharePoint 2010. Please note the cost for INTRANET and INTERNET is separate and if you have a scenario where both can co-exist, you will end up buying license for both Intranet and Internet.

Intranet Scenario

• SharePoint Standard Edition  
   o Server License [ if there are multiple Server then each server will have a separate license]
   o CAL license equal to number of Intranet users envisaged
   o Fast Search is not available under Standard License
• SharePoint Enterprise Edition
   o Server License [if there are multiple Server then each server will have a separate license]
   o CAL license equal to number of Intranet users envisaged
   o Fast Search is available under Enterprise License but need to get separate Fast Search Server 2010 license

• SharePoint Enterprise Edition with Fast Search
   o Along with Enterprise edition, Fast Search Server separate license is required and should be equal to number of search server planned

• SharePoint Team Foundation Server 2010
   o No Cost License & Free Download available
   o Need to have license version of Windows Server OS

Internet Scenario

Now if you know exact number of users than intranet license can be exposed to extranet/intranet and Server/CAL license will work. In case you truly want internet model (Not sure about number of external users) then SharePoint for Internet License can be used

SharePoint Internet Licenses are Server only license and each Server will require one server license. Now the tricky part, if the server only license is used then intranet users can use it if they are authoring/reviewing content only related with Internet deployment. If there is a scenario where some content of intranet will be separate then internet then one has to purchase both Internet PLUS intranet (Server/CAL) license. A bit strange, but that it is

When you are looking for actual scenario, it is always good to check with your Microsoft focal to ensure nothing has changed.

Here I found a good site having a quick price calculator for SharePoint 2010 http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/sharepoint-2010-price-calculator/default.aspx

Enjoy till next post

~Sajid