Re: Software Licensing for HA systems

That is our experience with all but two vendors.

I'll name the vendors who are trying to gouge us:  Inovis for their 
TrustedLink EDI software and SSA Global for the suite of Infinium products 
that we have.  Both are saying that it will be a 25% charge for the HA 
license.  In the case of SSA Global, that is a significant amount of money 
for us.

Thank you,
Ronald L. Zimmerman
I.T. Applications Manager
Swiss Valley Farms, Co.      http://www.swissvalley.com
"The Good for You Company"
Email: Ron-Zimmerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/13/2006 11:13:32 AM:

> In the shop where I've just implemented the MIMIX DR1 solution, only 
ACOM 
> dinged my client for $500 to transfer the license to the new machine. 
> Everybody else (JDE, ASC, Seagull) issued new licenses with just an 
email 
> and a letter stating that the 520 is now the production system. They 
> understand that the 270 is just there for use when the 520 is 
unavailable.
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> Paul Nelson
> Arbor Solutions, Inc.
> 708-670-6978  Cell
> pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
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> I would like to know the experience of others with their software 
> licensing and how they have responded when they implemented an HA 
solution 
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> such as MIMIX, iTera's ECHO2, etc.
> 
> As we have started preparing for implementing the ECHO2 solution, we 
> contacted all of our software vendors about how we would deal having a 
> second copy of their software on the HA system.  What we have found is 
> that the software vendors' policies range from allowing the second copy 
> for no additional charge all the way to requiring what we consider to be 

> an unreasonable additional fee.
> 
> Our position with the vendors is that the second copy is only used as a 
> disaster recovery backup and we will never be using more than one copy 
of 
> the software at any one time, so we believe that anything more than a 
very 
> 
> nominal additional charge is unreasonable.  We have two vendors who are 
> asking/requiring a fee equal to 25% of the list price for the HA copy of 

> their software which we believe is very excessive.
> 
> I would like to hear the experience of others and how they have dealt 
with 
> 
> this situation when they implemented their HA systems.
> 
> Thank you,
> Ronald L. Zimmerman
> I.T. Applications Manager
> Swiss Valley Farms, Co.      http://www.swissvalley.com
> "The Good for You Company"
> Email: Ron-Zimmerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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