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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:46:33 -0400
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- From: Andrew Potter <AWPSYS@RITVAX.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: CSLG Changes Program-to-Date 1
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- >Please remember that although the CSLG Portfolio is updated every other month,
- >your institution is only granted the license and rights to new versions once
- >a year. The products listed in Addendum A of your CSLG Agreement or your
- >CSLG Renewal Letter are the only products you are authorized to use. When
- >we produce your CSLG TK50 and paper CSLG PAKs, the products that are on the
- >CSLG Portfolio at the time of production of the tape are the products that
- >are granted to you as part of your CSLG Agreement.
-
- I can understand the above due to the beauracratic method DEC has chosen
- handle CSLG PAK distribution -- however:
-
- >You may at any time during your CSLG Agreement purchase products that are
- >not part of your agreement through the Education Market Basket Program which
- >is a 50% discount on any QL-license part number.
-
- This is absurd. Who in their right mind is going to pay this kind of money for
- a few months usage of a product.
-
- Can I "rent" a product on a monthly basis?
-
- How about a suggestion: Rather than go though all the trouble of making those
- customized TK50s (which are a pain anyway) for each TEI site, why not come up
- with an electronic method where a TEI customer dials (We'll even pay for the
- phone call) into a DEC database and electronicly retrieves PAKs for their site.
- This would give DEC a convenient electronic record of what products a customer
- is using as apposed to reading it off the paper copy of our CSLG reports.
-
- If you are super concerned about PAKs going out of dial in lines, you could
- design it so that when a customer dialed in and requested a PAK, he would
- get a short (10 Day) service update PAK with the main one being mailed
- out to the designated PAK administrator at the site.
-
- - Andy
-