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Change in Microsoft's Licensing Prices Attracts Some Colleges and Worries Others
FLORENCE OLSEN

Buy or lease? That's the difficult choice facing campus software managers when they license products from the Microsoft Corporation. On the one hand, colleges can continue to buy Microsoft's products as they have in the past, with licenses that permit the software to be used in perpetuity. Or colleges can elect to cut costs and bureaucratic problems by leasing software for everyone on the campus -- and run the risk that Microsoft could later decide to eliminate those savings by increasing the annual charges....

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