Mark (et al): Keep in mind, some ISV tools are proprietary and confidential code. If it were not, competitors would gobble it up and duplicate the functionality, hence, the need to keep it secure.
Regards, Mitch McCluhan, Legacy Modernization Consultant www.lcmg.us -----Original Message----- From: Dno <snipers5...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Sent: Thu, May 8, 2014 2:26 pm Subject: Re: Vendor Source Code Thanks Mark, makes sense. Dean Sent from my iPhone On May 8, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> wrote: >>>> On 5/8/2014 at 04:18 PM, Dno <snipers5...@gmail.com> wrote: > We're looking to purchase a sw product and our lawyers are looking at the t's >> and c's to see if we can have the right to their source code. At my previous > job we did this for BMC, we kept it at IMAR. I guess I never understand why, > so I'm asking if anyone our there does this and for what reason. If the > company went out of business what would the source code do for us? Would we > give it to another third party to maintain for us? I appreciate the feedback. Most companies do this for products that are supporting business critical unctions. If that's not going to be the case here, then there's no real need or escrowing the source. If it is the case, then you would have ability to keep your business critical unction running. As we're all aware "stuff happens" at the worst time, say uring a CPU upgrade. You could either maintain the code yourself or paying omeone else to do it. If nothing else, it could buy you time to migrate off he product gracefully. One of the benefits of working for an Open Source company is that we don't ave to worry about contract terms like that and neither do our customers. :) Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
