[GD-General] Re: asset & document management

[Enno R. <en...@de...>]

After all the input I got from this thread a few weeks back, I decided to 
give Sharepoint another shot for document management. Sharepoint Server is 
hideously expensive, though - I need to pay for the SPS server, the Win2K 
server, plus CALs for all our clients - in total, I end up somewhere around 
$12K real quick for a small team of 25 people, unless I've totally 
misunderstood MS licensing (which wouldn't surprise me either).

Then I found Sharepont Team Services, and it looked good. This is a 
toned--down version of Sharepoint that comes with Frontpage 2002, which 
costs $169. It installs on IIS so yes, I still need one Windows Server 
License. It needs an SQL server 2000, because without that, I don't get any 
search functionality. That's another 5,000 USD.

But I still need to buy a Client Access License (not for SPS, but for the 
Windows server) for every user in the company, because although this is all 
done via web pages, it requires logon using windows authentication - and 
once you do that, every user needs one CAL. For 25 clients, that's 1,800 USD 
for the server + CALs. I end up paying around 7,000 USD for something that 
is a better web portal, with most of that cost going into the search button.

That's really, really frustrating. I suppose for a company that's already 
using Windows servers and MS SQL servers, Sharepoint Team Services is really 
well-priced (at $169), but having to buy this long trail of other products 
is just way too much.

Damnit!

Enno.