RE: Software Subscription

Doug,
If you, as we did, take out the Software Subscription at the time of the
upgrade, you won't be charged anything to upgrade the software. You would
take the subscription at the P05 level.
In our case, we went from a 620 V4R2 (P30), to a 720 (P20).  To do this we
had to be on V4R3, as the 720 won't run on a lower OS version.  We took the
sub at P20 level, recieved the CD's about 2 weeks after agreeing the deal,
and arranged for the hardware delivery to take place a month after that (so
that we had time to do the u/g).
With regards to your third point, i'll have to check the fine print - it's
not something i had considered!

HTH

Regards,
Stuart


 > -----Original Message-----
 > From:        dhandy@isgroup.net [SMTP:dhandy@isgroup.net]
 > Sent:        Wednesday, September 15, 1999 2:03 AM
 > To:  MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
 > Subject:     Re: Software Subscription
 >
 > Stuart,
 >
 > >because the step down in processor group (figure that one!) made
 > >the upgrade deal too good to miss.  It worked out about £18k for a double
 > in
 > >CPW....
 >
 > Questions about what happens when you step down in processor groups:
 >
 > Let's say you move from a P10 CISC system at V3R2 to a (faster) RISC
 > system running V4Rx in the P05 group.
 >
 >  1) Do you pay the version upgrade fees for P05 tier V3 to V4
 > upgrades?
 >
 >  2) Is software subscription then based on the P05 tier?
 >
 >  3) What happens if the business then grows to the point it needs to
 > step back up to the P10 tier in the future?  Is the customer looking
 > at forking over the normal full P05 to P10 upgrade fees?
 >
 > If it matters, my concern if for customers in the USA.
 >
 > Doug
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