wss vs. moss

The following breakdown of Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server licensing costs is for the SharePoint Hosting licensing price model. If you are planning to, or already have deployed SharePoint in-house, Microsoft has another set of licenses for you to learn about. For us “SaaS folks” or hosting providers, Microsoft created the SPLA (Service Provider License Agreement.) This allows SharePoint hosting providers to break up the licensing costs into a monthly subscription. This obviously helps us make SharePoint affordable for great customers like ours.

So, now the question is – what type of licenses do you need to host WSS or MOSS?
What about Internet-facing SharePoint Web sites? What about the Windows Server OS license, the SQL Server license and the Client Access License(s) (CALs)? Well, we make it as simple and affordable as possible.

It really doesn’t matter if you’re hosting MOSS with Fpweb.net or not – it is important to understand the different features that are included in the different Office SharePoint Server licenses (Standard or Enterprise).

People are often asking me why they need MOSS over WSS.  The short answer is that unlike Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is a huge enterprise-level platform that can be used for anything and everything.