Citrix have officially announced the general availability of the campus wide licensing model for education users of XenDesktop, we first got wind of this a couple of weeks back and have already had a vast amount of interest shown in it. The salient points from the press release from yesterday reads:
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), today announced a new campus-wide licensing option for educational organisations worldwide, making it easy and cost-effective to deliver unlimited virtual desktops and applications to every faculty and staff member, and student. The new campus-wide option is part of the company’s longstanding Education Licensing program, which is a simple, flexible program that helps education customers get the most up-to-date technology, even on a limited budget. Academic institutions at both the K-12 and university level have been early leaders of the virtual desktop revolution, boasting significant cost savings with some of the largest desktop virtualisation deployments in production. With the introduction of the Citrix campus-wide option, educational institutions can now take advantage of the industry’s most comprehensive desktop virtualisation solution, Citrix XenDesktop™ 4, on a broad scale for as little as $9 per student.
Program Pricing
The Citrix Education Licensing program now consists of two options for customers based on their individual purchasing needs.
Campus-Wide Pricing – based on a specific Full-time Equivalent (FTE) student count where 100 percent of students are licensed in a school, department, district or campus. Faculty and staff can be covered under the same terms and pricing as students. Campus-wide pricing is available now for annual licenses (includes Subscription Advantage) of XenDesktop at the following suggested program list prices:
- XenDesktop 4 VDI edition – $9 per student per year
- XenDesktop 4 Enterprise edition – $19 per student per year
- XenDesktop 4 Platinum edition – $29 per student per year
For details on Campus-Wide licensing, please visit www.citrix.com/campus
Standard Education Pricing – provides a 40 percent discount from the Suggested List Price on “a la carte” purchases of all Citrix products.
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