[OPLINTECH] Microsoft - Nonprofit vs Academic Pricing & Features

[Justin Bumbico]

Hello All and Happy New Year!

I have a question regarding Microsoft licensing and the direction from Microsoft to move libraries from the Academic licensing path to the Nonprofit path.

This topic came up in at least two OPLINTECH threads last year.

  *   https://lists.oplin.org/pipermail/oplintech/2023-February/006408.html
  *   https://lists.oplin.org/pipermail/oplintech/2023-March/006439.html

My questions are...


  1.  For those who were on Academic before and moved to Nonprofit, how did this impact your pricing?
     *   I don't need anything super specific, but in general did your pricing go up, down or was the shift neutral.

  2.  Has anyone had issues with features or products that you adopted which were available in the Academic tier that were not available in the Nonprofit tier?
     *   I have heard from one library that one of the products available in Academic was not available in Nonprofit.  I'm not familiar enough with how features are introduced to the licensing paths, but there seems to be an order of precedence and in some cases that there is not feature availability across all paths.
        *   I have noticed that some of the new AI components (Copilot and Bing Chat for Enterprise) have only been initially released to enterprise customers.

At the moment, it seems that we will eventually end up in the Nonprofit path, so I'm trying to anticipate any pitfalls before that happens.

Thanks in advance.

Justin


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