Company Background
Corporate Information
Araba, Ltd. is a small company which only contains 15 employees and a single office.
Existing Environment
Existing Licensing Solution
Araba only purchases OEM licenses.
Existing IT Environment
There are 15 desktop computers in Araba, each company employee uses one. But only four desktops have access to the Internet. The company has installed Windows XP Professional and various versions and editions of Microsoft Office on these computers. Only when complete hardware failure occurs, the company purchases new desktops. Since Araba is a quite small company, it does not contain the IT department, a hardware supplier provide technical support services for the company.
Business Requirements
Planned Changes
The manager intends to sell the company in two years, keep overall costs to a minimum, and does not hope any increase of the overall costs during this period. According to the requirement of three employees, the company plans to allow them to work from home periodically. The three employees will be provided with dedicated portable computers by the compnay.
Business Goals
Araba aims to achieve the following business goal:
Buy all licenses in a single payment.
Deploy an internal server to provide e-mail services.
Permit all desktops to access the Internet.
Enable three employees to use their laptops from home periodically.
Make sure that all employees have the most current version of Office.
Make sure that all employees have the same edition of Office.
Implement a database to store customer data securely.
Only employees should be able to access this information.
Question
Since the company plans to buy Office licenses, of the following Volume Licensing programs, which one should you recommend?

A.
Open Value Non-Company-wide

B.
Enterprise Agreement

C.
Open License

D.
Open Value Company-wide