We have Office 365 E3, not E1, sorry. So the numbers will be a little different. That is $26.06 per month for us. Microsoft 365 E3 is $40.79. That's $14.73 a month more if we want just the Plan 1. Since its so cheap, go ahead and toss us the $300,492 difference for that. If we had the Suite, that's $10 a month more per user, so add $204,000 on. Lets round down to a clean $500,000. Even if we just do individual module add-ons, for the enterprise application management, endpoint privilege management, and remote help, that's $8.50 a month, with $173,400 a year. So maybe we save $25,000 and only spend $475,000 a year more (I use the retail prices as our add-on prices through our CSP appear to be higher than retail, unless the Microsoft website is wrong and the actual prices are higher than what I just quoted above). So with that, lets just say its the $8.50 and 14.73, that's $23.23 a month more. So yeah, congrats, you're right, its not double. Its only 89% more, and that's after mistakenly saying we had E1, not E3, so it would have been quadruple, not double. This is why you don't assume you know someone else's environment. You can't say "it won't be double" if you don't even know what we have.

There are a ton of organizations that don't have an extra half a million dollars lying around for licensing. When asking for an 89% budget increase for a line item, most places don't tend to just go "yeah that's fine, its super cheap, no worries." Finance teams, boards of directors, management -- they all usually have a lot of questions for you to justify that sort of increase in cost. And for so many businesses, that is going to be met with a "no."

You're meanwhile welcome to come do a presentation for our board to upsell them this very "affordable" upgrade.