[106] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Fwd: List price for software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F. Lambert)
Sun Mar 5 08:45:26 2000
Message-Id: <10003051346.AA05648@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 00 08:41:10 EST
From: "David F. Lambert" <LAMBERT@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: Enterprise Print Delivery Team <PRINTDEL@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Rachel Sage <sage@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 03 Mar 00 14:50:12 EST from
<RCLARKE@mitvma.mit.edu>
Either approach works for me - use the Group I-A3 price or apportion the
printing piece as a fraction of the total cost. We're not talking a lot
of dollars in either case. As Rocklyn suggested, Ceci & Kip can decide...
-Dave
On Fri, 03 Mar 00 14:50:12 EST Rocklyn said:
>Hello Team,
>
>At the end of yesterdays meeting, Cecilia, Dave, Kip, and I were discussing
>how to determine the cost of mainframe printing software (among other things).
>Dave suggested that we take the total cost of all our software and apportion
>it according to the percentage of the mainframe devoted to printing.
>
>During an earlier conversation yesterday, Rachel Sage pointed out to me that
>there is a HESC group to which we subscribe (if that's the correct word) which
>contains just printing software:
>
> Group I-A3, Selected VM System Printing and Publishing Programs
>
>This group includes the following software items:
>
> 5684-026 BookManager BUILD - VM Edition
> 5684-062 BookManager READ - VM Edition
> 5684-141 Print Services Facility /VM Version 2
> 5688-015 Publishing Systems BookMaster
> 5688-021 Fonts: Bar Code/Optical Character Recognition
> 5688-190 Page Printer Formatting Aid/370
> 5688-191 Overlay Generation Language/370
> 5688-224 Publishing Systems BrowseMaster Version 2
> 5771-ABA Fonts: Sonoran Serif p,r
> 5771-ABB Fonts: Sonoran Sans Serif q,r
> 5771-ABC Fonts: Pi and Specials e
> 5771-ADA Fonts: Data1
> 5771-ADB Fonts: APL2 5771-ADT Fonts: Mathematics and Science
>
>Since this list includes all of the software to shich Cecilia referred
>below (as well as BookManager), why don't we just take the cost of this HESC
>group as the cost of mainframe printing software and call it a day?
>
>The HESC web page can be found at
>
> http://www.hied.ibm.com/software/hesc/hescover.html
>
>According to the fee structure the annual fee for group I-A3 is $4,160.
>I will concede that this would not account for the fact that we have some
>non print-related utility software that supports mainframe services in
>general (e.g. VM/Secure) and therefore supports printing in part. This
>would be an argument for pursuing Dave's suggested strategy. I will
>leave it to the business model group to sort this out.
>
>
>Rocklyn
>
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>On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:37:35 -0500 Cecilia Talamantes said:
>>Rocklyn and Rachael,
>>
>>In order for IBM to give me this information they need the feature codes (see
>>list below). Can one of you do this? Send response to holmese@us.ibm.com or
>>call Gerald Smith at 770-863-3239.
>>
>>Cecilia
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:32:34 -0500
>>> To: holmese@us.ibm.com
>>> From: "Cecilia E. Talamantes"
>>> Subject: List price for software
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Dan Simoneau recommended I ask you this question. I'm from Massachusetts
>>> Institute of Technology, Information Systems and I'm interested in the list
>>> price for some printing software that is part of HESC program.
>>>
>>> Here's the list:
>>>
>>>
>>> Print Services Facility (VM Version 2)5684-141
>>> Fonts: Bar Code/Optical Character Recongnition5688-021
>>> Page Printer Formatting Aid/3705688-190
>>> Overlay Generation Language/3705688-191
>>> Fonts: Sonoran Serif5771-ABA
>>> Fonts: Sonoran Sans Serif5771-ABB
>>> Fonts: Pi and Specials5771-ABA
>>> Fonts: Data15771-ABC
>>> Fonts: APL25771-ADA
>>> Fonts: Mathematics and Science5771-ADT
>>> Document Composition Facility (DCF)5748-XX9
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Cecilia E. Talamantes
>>Financial Business Consultant
>>MIT Information Systems
>>77 Mass. Ave., W91-101a
>>Cambridge, MA 02139
>>phone: 617-253-7774
>>
