[AusNOG] AWS and MS SPLA

[David Hughes]

On 16/11/2012, at 2:18 PM, Nick Brown wrote:

> Offering RDS under SPLA for application delivery including Office is perfectly legal, as long as you are also licensing Office SAL’s for every user under SPLA.

Absolutely.  Hosted Office is one of the products we sell.



> All this reinforces though is that AWS is not a viable solution for customers looking to move their SBS / TS boxes out of their office and into “the cloud”, because even if they had Exchange / Sharepoint / Lync licenses under SA; neither RDS or Office SAL’s are covered under LM.

My point exactly.


Thanks

David
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