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Re: Survey: Are you upgrading to V3.1?

1997-10-30 15:25:24
Subject: Re: Survey: Are you upgrading to V3.1?
From: Julie Phinney <jphinney AT HUMANA DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:25:24 -0500
Michael R Vogt wrote:
>
> I am interested in what other sites with many (> 100) clients are doing
> about upgrading those clients to V3.1.
>
> 1. How many clients licenses does your site currently have?
>
> 2. Do you currently have Upgrade Protection?
>
> If "no" to question 2:
>
> 3. Are you planning on upgrading your V2.1 client licenses to V3.1?
>
> 4. Are you planning on purchasing Upgrade Protection for the next upgrade?
>
> >From "Price information for Announcement Letter 297-411",
> the suggested retail prices are:
>
>         $60 for upgrading each V2.1 client to V3.1
>         $40 for Upgrade Protection for each client
>
> So it would cost a shop with 1000 clients at V2.1:
>
> $60,000 to upgrade to V3.1. (And maybe another $60,000 in March 2000)
>
>  or
>
> $100,000 to upgrade to V3.1 w/future upgrade protection.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to reply!
>
> I will summarize the results if I get more than 5.
>
> Michael Vogt
> vogt AT nist DOT gov
I have 375 clients.  I plan to upgrade the "server" clients to v3.  I
plan to leave the users at V2.
I don't know whether or not we'll do upgrade protection, I'll leave that
to the contracts person.  I didn't know the upgrade would be so
expensive.