School Join MAT - Licensing

[karldenton]

Hi,

We are in the process of doing due diligence on a school.

At present they are a local authority school and their licenses are "Select licenses and perpectual". The licenses are supplied via the LA.

 

What happens whey they join our trust, does the school retain the licenses?

 

Thanks

[Zoom7000]

Hi,

We are in the process of doing due diligence on a school.

At present they are a local authority school and their licenses are "Select licenses and perpectual". The licenses are supplied via the LA.

 

What happens whey they join our trust, does the school retain the licenses?

 

Thanks

 

I would presume that the licenses would get carried over, provided that the school has paid for them. Never heard of an LA just handing out licenses, but if that was the case, then I would presume they would stay with the LA.

[jmak]

Hi,

We are in the process of doing due diligence on a school.

At present they are a local authority school and their licenses are "Select licenses and perpectual". The licenses are supplied via the LA.

 

What happens whey they join our trust, does the school retain the licenses?

 

Thanks

 

I presume as you're talking about select licenses, you're referring to Microsoft. In which case, it be fine, but they should have copies of the licences. If it's anything like our LA, they're not a re-seller, but advise the school on what they need and do the negotiation with a re-seller on the school's behalf.

 

The one you need to watch is SIMS.

[karldenton]

Turns out the primary connects to a KMS server at the LA that hosts the licenses

[jmak]

You'd still expect there to be purchase orders at the school for what they've bought.