RE: Tier pricing (was chgsysval QMODEL) -- MIDRANGE-L

We are user based.... and it is VERY unethical that this is what they are 
doing.   When you get a new PC do you have to re-pay microsoft to put windows 
on it???  And again as mentioned before,  it takes them what 5 minutes to issue 
a key?  So how much "administrative fee" should be charged for this.  We have 
many other packages on our system and only one other company is trying to nail 
us with a HUGE fee for a key. Afee is fine but lets not get carried away...



From: Chris Devous [mailto:cdevous@antigua.com]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 3:42 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Tier pricing (was chgsysval QMODEL)


Rick,

Face the music and learn to dance?  I've been playing this game a long time, 
and I
know enough to budget for this.  Understand, however, that the nature of our 
license
agreement does not base pricing on processor tier, but rather on number of
concurrent users.  I don't know what Angela's situation is, but her postings 
imply that
she has per user licensing.

Yes, it will cost me money to upgrade, for which I will receive benefit.  
That's what the
budget process is for.

I've seen a lot of unscrupulous business practices from vendors.  I think ten 
grand to
issue a key to someone who already has the right to use the software is
unscrupulous, whether you agree or not.  I would not object to a nominal
administrative fee, it does take a minimum of time and resources to issue a 
key, but
$10,000 is way overboard for something like this.

It may interest you to know that the last time I upgraded hardware, there was 
*NO*
charge to issue me a key.  I wasn't on OGS then, and I'm not now.  What has
changed?  Only the ownership.

Did they force me to a different processor?  Why would you think that is 
relevant?
The issue is that I have a license that permits me to use the software 
*regardless* of
what processor I run it on.  A software license is a legally binding and 
enforcable
contract, for both the user and the vendor.  I can go up to a certain number of
concurrent users.  If I want more people, I pay more dollars and would expect 
to.

I don't particularly want something for nothing, I just think that the fee is 
exhorbitant.

--Chris

On 30 Dec 2002 at 13:22, Rick Klopfer wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Call it what you want....but if I was betting man...I would say
> you/Angela is gonna be paying the developer some additional $$!
>
> Face the music and learn to dance!  A faster processor usually means
> some additional outlay of cash....in whatever terminology you want to
> call it. You may get a discount...but your purse will be opened and
> coins will flow out...
>
> Piracy??  I think the developer would call it simply a reasonable
> business practice. Ha!
>
> After all, they didn't force you to a different processor, eh??
>
> Rick--
>
>

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