This minimizes your up-front outlay, but if you can make a four-year or longer commitment to Zimbra, you will save money by buying a Perpetual license up front and then Annual Support.
When you buy a 12- or 24-month Subscription, you are actually buying a bundled term license and Support contract all in one. Zimbra Licensing Basics: Subscriptions, Licenses and Supportįor Network Edition, you need a license and a Support contract. All quotes and licenses are based on the number of mailboxes covered. For other customers, purchasing/renewing their own licensing can be avoided by migrating to Mission Critical Email’s hosting, which includes Zimbra licensing as part of the hosting costs. For example, Zimbra has significant price breaks at license quantities of 250, 2,500, 10,000 and 25,000 mailboxes, so if you have 2,400 mailboxes it’s actually much less expensive to order licensing for 2,500 mailboxes.
Zimbra’s Price Book for VARs (Value-Added Reseller Partners) contains nearly 450 SKUs, so choosing the right set of licenses that balance cost, features and risk is best done after a consultation. Mission Critical Email offers Zimbra Licensing and Support to Customers for their own Zimbra environments.
