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Buying Discounted CALS?
Name: supanatral Date: December 9, 2008 at 07:24:48 Pacific OS: Windows Server 2003 CPU/Ram: 3.0 Xeon w/1.5GB of RAM Product: Ibm / X SERIES
Comment:
Our company is looking to buy more CALS for a new server we're deploying. I see websites all over the place with huge advertisments and in all capitals saying that you can buy discounted CALS.
Name: wanderer Date: December 9, 2008 at 07:54:57 Pacific
Reply:
Discounted OEM cals are not legal to sell.. but you still see web sites selling them.
Buyer beware.
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Response Number 2
Name: supanatral Date: December 9, 2008 at 08:15:13 Pacific
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I thought something was going on. It didn't make sense to me why Microsoft would allow company's to compete with them for the price of CALS.
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