I was able to get a backup vendor to significantly reduce the cost of
the upgrade when I pointed out that I could PURCHASE TurboStore Online
for a whole lot less then the cost of the upgrade from a 967 to 979 on
said vendor's normal (not online) version of software. Still kind of
getting screwed on the maintenance side, but the quality of the support
has been great.

-Lane

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Cynthia Fowler
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:15 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Question

Unfortunately, the dreaded "tier pricing" comes into play when moving
licenses, especially if you are going to a more powerful machine. For
example, when we bought our 979/400 (which was too new to be on the used
market at the time), we paid more for the licensing related issues than
for the hardware. I've been through this twice in the last few years, so
I have been through the pain. Some software vendors are great and only
charge a small fee, but others (i.e., one particular 4GL who will remain
nameless and one backup vendor which we ended up dropping and returning
to the TurboStore 7x24 we already owned) charge exorbitant fees! YMMV,
but this is what I've found, especially recently.

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