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Tuesday's Tip: Dealing With Vendor Threats To Charge For Back Maintenance Fees

Tuesday’s Tip: Dealing With Vendor Threats To Charge For Back Maintenance Fees

By R "Ray" Wang on April 13, 2010

Four Common Customer Scenarios Will Trigger Vendors To Raise The Back Maintenance Fee Discussion Back maintenance fees describe the amount an organization would have paid for maintenance if they would have continued to pay the usual stream required to access support, bug fixes, patches, and upgrade rights.  As economic conditions have worsened, many organizations have […]

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