RE: Reducing Annual License Fees

["Richard Bryant" <rbryant@xxxxxxxxx>]

Very interesting thought. I am currently in the process of justifying our
50K ALF for MAPICS. I am putting the figures together on the ROI of dumping
MAPICS for another package. We have very little mod's and not using Mapics
to it's full potential. It's a shame, since Mapics has been in this company
since v2 on the 36. Not that I'm against Mapics, I had a very successful
installation of V2 on a 36 back in '88 and I know given time I could make it
useful here, I just can't mentally nor financially justify 50K a year for a
small company.

Is there a standard to the ALF?
Ours is currently 43.7% of the ILF signed in '99 when they upgraded to a
720.
Had an increase of 13.4% in 2000 and an increase of 3.9% currently.

Richard Bryant
Quipp Systems Inc.
IS Coordinator
Microsoft Certified Professional
rbryant@quipp.com
Phone: 305-623-8700 x-426
Cell: 954-558-4192


-----Original Message-----
From: mapics-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:mapics-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Eric Wolf
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 2:16 PM
To: mapics-l@midrange.com
Subject: Reducing Annual License Fees


To all,
My customer is trying to reduce their Annual License Fees which may soon be
approaching $100k.  I suggested that he may want to look into downsizing his
AS/400 to a large 270 and only run MAPICS on it, keeping his 720 for all
other applications (Lotus Notes, Web serving, etc.).  The two machines could
then be connected and made to appear somewhat seemless to the users.  The
270 would be more than paid for in the reduction in ALF.

Does anyone know of any company that has done this?  If yes, we would like
to speak with them about it (good or bad).

Thanks...
Eric A. Wolf
Midrange Implementation Specialists
eric_a_wolf@hotmail.com
818.841.1469

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