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It's been a few years since I dealt with this but I used to regularly see increases of 12% to 18%. Always tried to buy multiple years if possible. Of course, the renewal price after 3 years was a sticker shock.
Even more difficult to justify when your management considers software maintenance "an annuity for vendors".
Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 6:54 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: IBM i vendor maintenance increases
Have others had IBM i vendors raise their maintenance amounts before? This
past year we experienced a roughly 15% increase in IBM i SWMA. I don't
fault IBM for doing this, nor am I complaining. I am more curious how
common this practice is in the IBM i space and what are the typical
percentage increases.
Aaron Bartell
IBM i hosting, starting at $157/month. litmis.com/spaces
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