RE: Reducing Annual License Fees

By size do you mean the processor group? P10 versus P20 etc?

We are looking to possibly upgrade next year from an older model 500 that is
in the P20 group to an 820 model that is actually much bigger in processing
capabilities but would drop to a P10 group. When I spoke with our local
affiliate about reduced cost for licensing, I was told that the pricing
would need to be reviewed by MAPICS once we confirmed the model and that it
may not be tied to the processor group like most of our other licenses.

I have to agree that as an I.S. department in a small business , a $50,000+
ALF is the highest single item on my annual budget after salaries and
capital improvements. I receive 5 - 10 calls a month from people wanting to
sell us a new ERP system on a Windows Platform and feel that I need to start
listening to some of these. I have over 20 years of experience with the IBM
system 34, 38 and AS/400 lines and have yet to find a better platform but I
feel I need to once again evaluate the situation.

Regards,
Jon Le Roi
Director of Information Systems
Tegal Corporation



-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Wolf [mailto:eric_a_wolf@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 12:01 PM
To: mapics-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Reducing Annual License Fees


The annual license fee is based on either/or.

Eric


>From: "aldg" <aldg@mail.rvi.net>
>Reply-To: mapics-l@midrange.com
>To: <mapics-l@midrange.com>
>CC: "Gershen, Al"  <aldg@mail.rvi.net>
>Subject: Re: Reducing Annual License Fees
>Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:40:45 -0700
>
>Hi Eric Wolf:
>
>Is the Mapics Annual License Fee(s) bases on the size of the AS/400 or on
>the number of users connected to the system; or a combination of both?
>
>Regards....
>
>------Your 9/13/01 Original Posting------
>
> >From: "Eric Wolf" <eric_a_wolf@hotmail.com>
> >Reply-To: mapics-l@midrange.com
> >Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:15:31 -0700
>
> >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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