Licensing Sharepoint 2016 for developers

Hi.

I had seen that: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/compare/
There it says in footnote 6: Microsoft SharePoint Server is licensed separately, that had me confused.
Ok, what do you pay for your subscription
-to start it
-annually?
if I may ask?

I'm in the European market, prices will be different elsewhere. Actually just realized my MSDN subscription is Ultimate. That's around 7k.

I'm in the EU, too. 7,000€ to start it once? And what do you pay to maintain it?

I think it's the same cost per year. I'm not involved in the renewal though so a little could be wrong.

However it looks like Enterprise will be enough and will be much cheaper. Ultimate is probably overkill for your needs.

Once we start discussing licensing though, it's Microsoft Rep time to be absolutely sure. You can always cut a deal depending on your relationship with MS.

What do you know about multi-usage? Would we need 2 of those for our 2 developers?

Would expect each dev to have one yes.

I am pretty astounded to find there should be no cheaper solution than to invest 7,000€ per developer and year, because that would soon cost more then sharepoint licensing for, say, 50 users at the same time, given that we have a core CAL suite, anyway. Will close this and update it when we find time to talk to MS licensing consultants.

Thank you.

Keep in mind, although they can create some extra work and planning, the 180 day trial versions are fully functional.

Of course. But that would be lousy cheating :)