The Microsoft Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) enables services providers to license Microsoft products on a monthly basis to provide services and hosted applications to their end customers. The Services Provider License Agreement is intended for
Web hosters; application service providers; service providers offering messaging and/or collaboration, platform infrastructure, streaming media, or Web/Internet services; ISVs providing hosted applications; outsourcers providing software licenses; and consultants
providing software services. If your business model falls into one of these categories, this is probably the licensing program you need. To learn more see: http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/licensing/spla.asp
Hi! I´m using Windows Server 2003 with an mailserver from Icewarp called Merak, so I only provide my customers with mail on my windows platform and they are only loggin on the mailsystem. I have a license for Windows Server 2003 (oem license with machine),
is it required to get an SPLA agreement and if it is why?????? I have paid for Windows Server once, why is it that i have to pay every month and do i need to do it when i don´t provide my customers with webhosting? For webservers i use Redhat Enterprise Linux
3 with PHP & MySQL. Anyone who know if Microsoft SPLA is required and if it is legal? Kind Regards Peter Nilsson Yanet.dk
I’m working with our licensing specialists to get an answer for you. Thanks
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Hi! It sounds great, but my use of windows will stop when icewarp creates a linux version of their mailserver. If microsoft let me use my windows as normal companies and accept that i use a standard license for my windows server 2003 and my Merak server, then
I will continue to use microsofts software on the server and even buy a new one when the next windows server version is out. I think Microsoft is killing its own bussiness, it is not linux beating windows, its microsofts silly license conditions that is giving
linux success. And ASP.NET and ASP is not somthing that i wan´t, it is insecure and i don´t want to pay microsoft a fortune for running my servers......one expensive server is far enough.....my 4 other servers is running Redhat Linux Enterprise 3 (that is
not free, but a fair price) For now i´m still a customer.....but not for long i hope :-( Regards Peter Nilsson Yanet.dk
The Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) is generally required whenever Microsoft software is being provided for use by a 3rd party company or individual. So in most any typical hosting scenario, such as Web, Application, or E-mail services, it is required,
and software that is licensed through any of the other Volume Licensing programs, or bought retail, is not permitted for such a service by the "No Rent, Lend, or Lease" clause contained in the EULAs that accompany the CD media attained through those programs
or retail sales; that software may only be used by the 2nd party company or person that purchased it. The SPLA is the Microsoft Volume Licensing program for the service provider industry. It has been in operation for many years now, but admittedly has not
received nearly as much awareness as the other Licensing programs, usually only through our Web site promotion and word-of-mouth explanation. You can find the latest information about the SPLA at the following address on our Service Providers Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/licensing/spla.asp
There is also a brand new marketing brochure available in PDF format that you can download. This brochure contains a great amount of information that specifically addresses many usage questions we have received over the past years. http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/3/a/b3ae92b0-cad7-48a0-8200-9238d1407fbc/SPLA_Brochure.pdf
To briefly try and dispell the largest misunderstanding about the SPLA, it is not a full payment in advance licensing model. Software is licensed through the SPLA on a monthly basis with no time-commitment obligation. You actually make your license payment
AFTER you have used the software. For example, if you ran four servers of Windows Server 2003 Web edition in July, you would pay $10 (the monthly price of Web Edition) times four, equaling $40 for that month. If you know that you will be making a short-term
use of more servers in August, say six, but will be discontinuing the last two come September, your license fees would be $60 for August and then $40 again for September. The brochure document gives a fuller explanation of this. In closing, I also want to
mention that an alternate eligibility option will soon be in place so that being a Certified Partner is not an absolute requirement to license software using the SPLA model. Certification will remain an eligibility option, but for those companies that are
not yet certified or find it difficult to become so in a short period of time, a new eligibility option will be available to them. We plan to announce this new information by summer's end or perhaps even as early as next month. If you would like to receive
this information as soon as it is available make sure that your company is a registered member of the Windows Web Hoster Program (it's free and there is no obligation or commitment - join at www.microsoft.com/wwhp) and that we have a valid contact e-mail address
for someone at your company.
Matthew Boettcher
Web Platform Technical Evangelist (Hosting)
Developer & Platform Evangelism Division (DPE)
Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region (EMEA)
Microsoft Corporation
I'd like to add to this that there are other avenues to acquiring SPLA licensing. Our company, NewLease, is very active in Australia in making SPLA licensing available to smaller hosting companies via our own SPLA agreement with Microsoft. This service which
is in essence a reseller program, is available to hosters worldwide and gives companies access to flexible, cost-effective SPLA licensing without the sometimes prohibitive cost and resource investment required for a direct SPLA relationship. I'd also like
to add that the feedback from our hosting partners regarding the whole SPLA concept has been very positive. For many, it has opened doors to hosting more complex sites such as those using SQL that would previously have been out of the question due to the enormous
capital outlay required for the SQL server software. SPLA gives these providers the opportunity to test the market with no capital upfront and a simple backout plan. Please see our website (www.newlease.com.au) for further information on our Platinum Partner
Program.
yeah, i agree. i'm thinking to make switch from Windows Server with Helm to Linux based hosting. i don't like Helm as a control panel since it's buggy and poorly documented but so far it get the job done. small player like us will never able to afford Microsoft
technology. you might as well switch over to Linux for all the free opensource software.
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Hi
Is there any Demo or preview available for SPLA Reporting or Billing?
How the Service Provider would submit resources usage report to Microsoft?
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks