[686] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Expanding the InfoPrint Manager Software License
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Wed Nov 15 08:39:26 2000
Message-Id: <10011151338.AA23302@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 00 08:17:15 EST
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.Edu>
To: Susan S Minai-Azary <AZARY@MIT.EDU>, Theresa M Regan <TREGAN@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Roger A Roach <RAR@MIT.EDU>, Bob Ferrara <rferrara@MIT.EDU>,
Greg Anderson <GANDERSO@MIT.EDU>,
Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>,
Peter B Kelley <KELLEY@MIT.EDU>, Kenneth Higgins <khiggins@MIT.EDU>
Susan & Theresa,
When the print delivery team negotiated the contract for IPM, IBM
made a pricing mistake in our favor as well as giving us a heavy
discount. Their IPM pricing is a tier structure based on the number
and size of the printers to be managed by IPM. At the time, we also
requested a special discounted pricing option to expand the IPM license
to manage the additional ~500 distributed SAP printers. We are
~4 months into the 6 month pricing fuse to invoke that option.
Greg & Bob have agreed to the project team's suggestion that evaluating
the movement of the SAP printers from Athena Print Services (APS) to
IPM is out of scope for the current delivery project. Please recall
that we are chartered to handle central printing issues. Therefore,
Bob & Greg agree that a discovery project will be needed to perform
this evaluation. I've only had brief informal discussions with Theresa
on the topic but also assured her there would be a formal review.
With only two months remaining on the 180 day fuse, Greg, Bob and the
team agree we should not rush this discovery effort. The special
pricing to expand the license is a great deal which we'll lose
in two more months. The license enhancement to pick up the additional
~500 printers also pushes us over the maximum threshold to manage
an infinite number of printers at no additional cost. The special
pricing option is an additional $17K. Bob, Greg & the team feel
this is a good investment and buys us some time to do the discovery
effort right. Minimal additional software support costs would be
paid for by ASOP.
Therefore, we would like approval and funding from Susan's managed
software budget to invoke the option to enhance the IPM license
at a one time cost of $17K. Since other parties on the recipient
list have agreed to this plan, we're only looking for nods of
approval from Susan & Theresa. Thanks for considering this proposal!
Dave (for the Enterprise Print Delivery Team)
ps for Susan: Thanks for funding the ~$35K for the original IPM license!
