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In article <sblh.702595960@msi.umn.edu> you write:
>stcroix@ultra.com (Bill St. Croix) writes:
>
>>It is my understanding (from numerous sources) that there is no such
>>animal as a "site license" from Microsoft.  I personally have never seen
>>multiple-user copies of any Microsoft software (the exception may be MS
>>Mail, but I don't recall).  Anyway, Word and Excel are only purchasable
>>in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Mail in one package...and still
>>single user) or individually.  If this is not the case, please let me know,
>>since this would be useful information to me.
>
>At least for educational use, Microsoft has "multi-packs" available.  They
>supply 1 manual set, 1 copy of the media, and n (in my case, ten) "rights-
>to-use".  I have two ten-packs of Microsoft Word (for sixteen Macs--it was
>cheaper to over-license than to buy sixteen copies).

After receiving a few responses to this post, I called Microsoft.  They
do indeed have the multi-user copies available.  I guess you find a 
3rd party vendor (any one of them from what I was told) and purchase one
copy of Word or whatever.  You can then purchase what I believe was called
"MLPs" which is basically a right to copy.  Supposedly, these MLP's can
be purchased at a 20-30% discount (I can't remember which I was told now)
and supposedly have order forms for documentation (I didn't ask if there
was a cost for the documentation).

On a side note, it seemed that the Microsoft rep didn't want to tell me
about this avenue.  I asked, "Does Microsoft offer multiple user packages
of Excel or Word?"  I was told, No that they only offered multiples of
Mail.  I then asked if they site licensed software.  I was again told no.
I then mentioned the 10 user packs that I had been told about and asked
if that was just for educational institutions.  I was then told about
the "right to copy" packs of 10 users.  Apparently I wasn't clear enough
to begin with, I don't know...I thought that I was pretty clear.

The lady was very helpful and explained the way the system works.

Thanks to all of you who responded regarding this.

	Bill

P.S.  Still waiting to hear from someone at Microsoft about the
*advantage* of disk personalization of any other method.

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