What you should know about the O4 M&S Changes
Maintenance and Support (M&S) funds much of what drives OASIS. This includes the following – and much more:
- Royalty payments to our vendors
- Acquisition and royalty payments for new vendors as old vendors fall behind or leave the market
- OASIS Software development efforts
- Support staff and related support equipment (e.g. phones, computers, database licenses)
Many early OASIS users purchased OASIS at $360 and have been paying M&S at a rate of 15% of the purchase price for well over a decade. That is, the M&S for a user license was $54/year in 2005 and for those users has remained $54/year/user. With cost increases and the general rate of inflation, the price of a new OASIS user license is $750 followed by a 15% or $112.50/ year for M&S. It really paid to buy into OASIS early!
Most OASIS users won’t notice a change in M&S as many OASIS users paid $750 per license. However, groups that have been using OASIS for over a decade will notice a nearly double M&S cost as OASIS O4 rolls out. Although we will work with users during this change, it is a process we have to do simply to properly fund OASIS development efforts.
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