Office 2000 to Office 2003 upgrade value
From: ChiefDarkCloud (cal2833_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/10/04
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Date: 10 Sep 2004 14:47:02 -0700
Our environment of 300+ users is standardized on Windows 2000 Pro and
Office 2000 Pro. Few of the office users are "power users." Most use
Word and Excel with a number of them using Access. However, the
larger Access databases are being converted to SQL Server.
We have already migrated from Outlook 2000 to Oulook 2003 and are
running Exchange 2003 on a Windows Server 2003 platform in a Windows
Server 2003 Domain Controller environment. Most other file and print
servers run on Windows 2000 server.
A question has been presented regarding an upgrade of the Office suite
from Office 2000 Pro to Office 2003 Pro in the next year. Is this a
justifiable move? Can it be justified based on ROI? The licensing
costs are not trivial, we are looking at a quarter of a million
dollars over a three year span for the Office upgrade. At some point
in the next 2 - 3 years we will be upgrading workstation hardware and
the new workstations would include whatever the "current" office suite
is. Current hardware performance is acceptable.
I know that an upgrade includes costs that extend beyond the
product/license price - costs like deployment, user training and
hand-holding, document compatibility, etc.
Have any of you faced this question? How have you handled it, valued
it, etc.
Thanks in advance for your help.
ChiefDarkCloud
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