Businesses bought Vista even if Deployment Staggered
Jeff Putt, director of Windows Business Group in Microsoft Australia, told ZDNet:
We have had a 27 percent increase in [Vista volume licence sales]. One of the benefits [for customers] is access to the next version of Windows and the other is access to the Enterprise edition [of Vista], which has its own unique features.
We have seen record sales in enterprise agreements. We measure… how many seats are assigned to licensing and how many Windows users we are getting.
However, when asked how many organisations with an enterprise agreement had actually deployed Windows Vista, Putt admitted that just because the companies had paid for licences, it did not mean they had rolled out the operating system yet.
Deployment is a different issue. We have seen record [enterprise agreements] and that is an intention to deploy. The first step in a business using [Vista] is agreeing to use it.
I could imagine Microsoft sales making all kinds of discount deals to get businesses to buy Vista. I have seen so many enterprises who have already purchased volume licenses right after the launch of Vista without deploying it company wide until now. It is normal that businesses who haven’t deployed Vista in a large scale to leave it up to projects, divisions or groups the discretion of deploying Vista.
Wherever you look at it, Vista was bought and businesses would definitely deploy and use Vista in the long run.
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2 opinions for Businesses bought Vista even if Deployment Staggered
Geoff
Dec 22, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Wow what a marketing pitch, a lot of comparies are enrolled in EA to attempt to simplify ongoing ICT capital with using Microsoft software. Rolling this up as a Vista buying chant is just plain laughable..
Mugundan
Feb 12, 2008 at 8:42 am
Which edition of Windows Vista support Application development using Visual Studio(6.0 / .net)
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