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OIC after the major outage and high cost associated with the new system,
management is trying to save a few dollars on the old system that has been
rock solid for many years.
I would gamble that just the cost of keeping DMV offices open on a legal
holiday wold pay what ever savings there might be in license fees for about
forever.
Given that the maintance cost for many products is 1/10 of the then current
license fee the expected break even for product replacement vendor fees
alone is estimated at 10 years.
Avram Friedman
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I have often referred to Compuware as part of the "Tyrannical Triad"
because of what I considered outrageous fees. The other two were always
BMC and CA. At my last shop, we threw out all the Compuware software and
replaced it with the IBM rough equivalents, at about 10% of the
Compuware cost. Never looked back, either. We were in the process of
removing CA-1 and replacing it with RMM when economics grabbed us by the
throat and I was one of the losers in the "Who gets laid off" lottery. :-(
Rick
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