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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SunSpot who wrote (44255)	5/4/2000 10:14:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

SunSpot - re: if I order and get 500 licenses and have to pay for 600 licenses I think something is wrong. Why would you do that? I know a lot about the various delivery mechanisms MSFT uses, retail, VAR and OEM, and none of them charge you for product you don't order and take... The closest thing would be a Select license where a big end user commits to a certain purchase commitment over time in exchange for getting the discount level for his commitment, rather than what he has actually bought. But if the customer fails to achieve his purchase commitment, he does not get stuck with product - he is instead charged the price for the discount level he actually achieved. Pretty standard stuff. Do you have any examples of a transaction where anything like "if I order and get 500 licenses and have to pay for 600 licenses" or are you just repeating a rumor you heard somewhere?