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Unlock IT Budget Potential for IBM and HC

Name: Unlock IT Budget Potential for IBM and HC
Uploaded: 2024-09-13T21:45:00+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin warns that switching from perpetual to subscription licenses locks customers into paying whatever price the vendor sets. Once you move to…

13 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Mike Austin warns that switching from perpetual to subscription licenses locks customers into paying whatever price the vendor sets. Once you move to term-based licensing, you're stuck until you can replace the software entirely.

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Another thing that you're going to see is a big push to subscription based licensing. Because once a manufacturer has you on subscription based licensing, you're really stuck. You have to keep paying whatever they choose to charge you for as long as you have that software on the floor. So, you know, if you go from this year, you go from a perpetual license to a term license, and you realize, hey, this is not really a good deal for me. Well, you're stuck until you can migrate off of that software, replace that solution some way, right? You're just stuck paying whatever the subscription cost is for as long as you want to want to be on that software.