Microsoft Drops Yammer Prices, Sends Message To The Market That It Is All In On Social | TechCrunch

Probably not a happy leading indicator for Jive and other social business players

"Yammer has historically offered four different options. Microsoft has reduced them to two: a free version called Yammer Basic and a paid version called Yammer Enterprise. Yammer Enterprise, which will be offered with Office 365 Enterprise, will drop from $15 per person per month to $3 per month.
Like Salesforce.com and others, Microsoft is talking about unified identity. That’s a fancy way of saying Microsoft will make Yammer, Sharepoint and other tools accessible through a single identity. We heard a bit about this at Build. The idea is to make it possible to log in, use Yammer as an activity stream, Skype for calls, and Office365 to manage documents."

Microsoft Drops Yammer Prices, Sends Message To The Market That It Is All In On Social | TechCrunch