Quick Comparison of WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007 Standard, and MOSS 2007 Enterprise

Sometimes it gets overwelming viewing the huge microsoft comparison Spreadsheets and pricing info, so I decided to simply break down the MAJOR differences of these three products and the pricing information. Other Products such as Office 2007 Forms Server, SharePoint Server for Search, and SharePoint 2003 were discluded from this comparison.

Commonly Used Features Moss Standard Provides Over WSS 3.0

• Document Management Site Templates
• Retention and Auditing Plicies
• Records Repository
• OOB Workflow
• Slide Libraries(Store individual powerpt slides in site)
• Auditing and Complience
• People Search
• Relevence Algorithms for Search
• Search Enterprise Content Sources (File Shares, Exchange Folders, etc)
• My Sites
• User Profiles
• Programability of Search: API's
• SSO

Commonly Used Features MOSS Enterprise Provides Over Standard

• Business Intelligence In General
• BDC and BDC Web Parts and Actions
• Report Center - Provides consistand management of Reports
• KPI
• Filter Web Parts (Filter lists, profiles, etc)
• Excel Services: fully interactive spreadsheets in browser
• Excel Spreadsheet extensibilty: Access via web services
• Business Data Search
• Browser based Forms

How to Work with Clients on Licensing;

Three Questions to ask the client:

1. How do you buy your current Microsoft licenses?
2. Are in aggrement with microsoft(open, select, enterprise)?
3. Assuming they do not purchase at Best Buy, ask who do you purchase through?

Major Differences between three Aggreement types:

• Select Agreement: Buy CALS based on forecast. You can buy in chunks.
• Open Agreement: Buy CALS as you need
• Enterprise Agreement: Must buy CALS for all users included in the agreement

Related Links:

• For General SharePoint licensing costs: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/FX102176831033.aspx
• To Calculate an estimate of entire SharePoint farm license costs: http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/sharepoint-price-calculator/default.aspx
• SharePoint Product Feature Comparison SpreadSheet: http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT102011901033&CTT=5&Origin=HA1019780331033
• License type comparison(Open, Select, Enterprise): http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/a/a/7aa89a8b-bf4d-446b-a50cc9b00024df33/VLP_Interactive_Commercial_Final_April%2007.pdf