Re: IBM i vendor maintenance increases

As the dollar becomes worth less and less prices must go up. :) Half
serious here. Just look at the price of gold/silver, etc over the past 20
or so years.

I don't think raising prices (SWMA or licensing) a little from time to time
is so bad. But doing it to try and make up for an unsustainable product or
falling sales may be crossing the line. 15% could be a lot, or it could be
a little (we don't know what the original cost was).

You should be getting developer discounts as well. I hope you are at
least! :)




Bradley V. Stone
www.bvstools.com
Native IBM i e-Mail solutions for Microsoft Office 365, Gmail, or any Cloud
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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
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