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For the past few days, I've been working on Sharepoint licensing schemes for a customer who is still using Microsoft Office 2000.

As you all know, Office Communicator 2007 is conveniently bundled with Microsoft Office 2007.  However, I do not think it would be necessary for my customer to upgrade their whole Office Suite to get the Office Communicator for free.

I was able to find out that Microsoft is offering a stand-alone licensing for Office Communicator 2007 that can only do IM.  However, if you want enterprise features such as VOIP and video conferencing, you need to package in Office Communication Server 2007 and Enterprise user CALS to make it work.

Fortunately, my customer can do away with the VOIP and conferencing feature (less headache for me to include this in my capacity planning woes which I will tell in another time).  But he wants online presence in Sharepoint and IM.  In this case, I still need to provide Standard bundle all three of them:  Office Communicator 2007 license with Office Communication Server 2007 and Standard User CALS.   You can setup this up in a single server and with proper hardware sizing, it can support up to 5,000 online users.