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[FYI] MS squeezes business for more dough with rental model
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- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 22:05:26 +0200
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MS squeezes business for more dough with rental model
By: John Lettice
Posted: 08/05/2001 at 14:14 GMT
Microsoft's luckless corporate customers are about to find themselves
bounced into a rental model, the bottom line being that they'll have
to pay Redmond more, more regularly, and they're not going to have
much of a choice. UBS Warburg analyst Don Young was yesterday
trailing a "fundamental shift" in the company's licensing policy
which would effectively mean customers just keep paying for their
Microsoft licences - which of course, is a rental model.
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