[jasonjayr]

Besides opening up a sales channel, is there SOMETHING that can explain what the right way to license Office + Windows in a 50-employee business?

I've gotten by for SOOO long with samba + OSS, and our main stack is OSS, and have remained on the up + up with licensing. But with CAL's, Domain Controllers, File servers, etc, etc -- It seems to get so obnoxiously expensive fast --- for the only benefit of entrenching yourself to Microsoft tech?

Given that I have to maintain a fleet of 40-50 Windows devices, Along with Samba 4, is there any good tech stack OSS or otherwise for managing all that?

[yuhong]

Yea, CALs are another mess altogether. I think some server products even use per-core licensing now.