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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:51:00 -0500
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- From: Jonathan_Welch <JHWELCH@UMAECS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: DEC to charge CSLG educational institutional members for
- software?
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- In article <1g86etINNldk@athena.sdsu.edu>, mccurdy@bestsd.sdsu.edu writes:
- > Has anyone heard of a DEC proposal to begin charging educational
- > institutional members of the CSLG for software beginning next summer?
- >
-
- The new program was discussed in detail at the Las Vegas DECUS
- about a week ago.
-
- Here are some extracts from my notes:
-
- The new prices will be announced the 2nd week in Jan.
-
- Currently there are 1,500 schools in the CSLG program using
- $850 million in software and granted over $2,300 million in software.
-
- CSLG issues included
- Profitability
- Contract negotiations and renewals - simplify
- customer resources - no more semi-annual report, replaced by annual survey.
-
- Goals for new program:
- Charge for value - cover costs & return profit to DEC.
-
-
- ESL and CSLG combined into one program.
- Seperate portfolios for the different operating systems. (VMS, Osf/Ultrix, NT)
- Must purchase at least 1/year. They will be updated 4 times/year.
- A nominal fee will get you an update. Portfolio only good for a year.
-
- Your DEC sales rep. will now get sales credit - hopefully this will
- improve their performance. :-)
-
- SchoolWide software program for K-12 and
- CampusWide software program for colleges & universities.
- New category for statewide schools instead of being on the 101+ category.
-
- For calculating system counts 10 PCs will count as 1 system.
-
- 2 levels of support: 1) OS, System Integrated, Network & User Integrated
- products (like today's SSS) and 2) Layered Products
-
- Annual membership fees (TBA)
- 1-25
- 26-100
- 101+
- State- or system-wide
-
- 1 annual membership fee
- Seperate portfolio fee.
-
- VMS portfolio includes Alpha products.
-
- 1st set of 8 or 9 Alpha products will be grandfathered into today's CSLG.
-
- Estimated price cost of 1-25 plus 1 portfolio < today's ESL prices.
-
- Currently no partner licenses (royalty products) for:
- C++ Motif Pathworks (<100 units)
-
- Jonathan Welch VAX Systems Manager Umass/Amherst JHWELCH@ecs.umass.edu
-