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Microsoft distributor Westcoast is trying to "ease the pain" for customers facing a price hike on Open Value Volume (OVV) licenses by pushing out a three-month promo. Starting 1 July, Redmond realigned prices across the EU to the single currency and as such UK firms will cough between 1.7 per cent and 25.9 per cent more for …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Squeezing the little people

    The big boys have ghost offices in the US and always pay Dollar prices. They will not be affected.

    Those that don't will be in for some pain when their Enterprise Agreements come up for renewal.

    For the SME's there will be the usual warm and understanding "Take it or leave it" offer.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Open Value !

    How can anyone allow a vendor to treat him like this ? What is so special in it to make it worth enduring such an insult ? Yeah, I know, they still don't fire people for buying Microsoft. That's too bad.

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    1. Tim Bates
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      Re: Open Value !

      Totally agree.... There comes a time where the price of the MS "standard" software outweighs the costs of switching to an alternative platform. There's a growing number to choose from for most business cases.

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