Microsoft / Domino Key Pricing Differences
Microsoft / Domino Key Pricing Differences
- The Exchange Server Enterprise Edition (what most customers deploy) price is increasing almost 50% in 2001.
- Installed base customers will have to pay for the upgrade, at $2000 per server. It's no wonder that Microsoft is encouraging customers to do server consolidation before upgrading to Exchange 2000
- Customers who paid Microsoft's "Upgrade Advantage" (maintenance) appear to have been throwing money out the window since 1997, the last major release of Exchange (5.5), since even those customers have to pay for the upgrade
- The release notes for Exchange 2000 RC2 indicate that front-end servers in a front-end/back-end scalability configuration must be Enterprise edition, despite the fact that there is no data living on those servers.
- The increase to the CAL to $67 puts them closer to the Domino CAL/Notes price of $69. However Lotus' "iNotes" CAL, which delivers increasing functionality, is US$50.
- Domino Enterprise Server is still $1000 more than Exchange Enterprise ($4995 vs $3995). However, Domino clustering is more sophisticated in that you can cluster across a wide-area network...Exchange uses a shared-disk physical clustering model that doesn't offer the same level of reliability. Therefore Domino offers a much higher level of functionality and scalability and and and...plus a choice of platforms.
- Relative to last point, Exchange 2000's clustering requires Win2K Advanced Server (for two node failover) or Win2K Datacenter Edition (OEM Only, for four node) for clustering. These versions of the operating system are priced significantly higher than Windows 2000 Server, so the total cost of ownership for a clustered Exchange server is much higher than a clustered Domino server.
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