>I have a question on Out Sourcing. When you sign a contract does that mean you >no longer have to pay for your software product maintenance licenses?
Of course the licence still has to be paid for. You can either transfer it to the service provider, or continue paying it yourself. If you've transfered, it will be buried in your service fees. It's not free. A certain large ISV wanted to charge us 10 times the annual rate to transfer the licence to our out-sourcer. They did this because the out-sourcer had a fully funded (and approved) initiative to replace all the products they supplied with any other equivalent. The ISV was/is not popular. They decided they'd rather gouge us one more time because they were going to lose us, if they transfered the licence. (You can probably figure out which ISV) But, the bottom line is maintenance is not going to go away, regardless of who pays for it (directly, or indirectly). - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
