RE: Two good articles to read

<<Why should our payments be used to subsidize those who haven't been paying
maintenance?>>

Also the plight of us taxpayers. :-)

Paul Nelson
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 7:21 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Two good articles to read

Thank you Pete. I think the credit goes to Alex Woodie though.

I understand Larry's frustration. We are an Infor customer. Actually the
3rd they ever had and the oldest still running it. The only problem I
have with Larry's article is that we've been faithfully paying maintenance
all this time. Why should our payments be used to subsidize those who
haven't been paying maintenance?
I understand the frustration to people like you, Larry, Jim, etc who get
their bacon from peddling upgrades and losing sales because of this issue.
However these people were the ones being pennywise and pound foolish and
dropped maintenance. And will probably do so again.
I am willing to say it's not a "line in the sand" kind of issue though.
Perhaps a little back maintenance or resubscription fee followed by a
three year maintenance contract or some such thing.



Rob Berendt