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Scenario:
I've inherited a JDE XE install that my company is looking to upgrade to 9.x.
We were originally World customers since 1994, in 2002(or so) we upgraded to XE. Right wrong or indifferent, we’ve paid our maintenance fee since the mid 90s without issue. Our contract in 2002 was upgraded to 100 concurrent users.
All of this was prior to my time here.
I’m now being asked to look at taking our company to 9.1, so we’ve talked to a couple Oracle partners and we’ve had a ton of discussion about licensing which has been needlessly insane. This has been going on for months while we’ve also been looking at some other ERP software more specific to our industry.
First, we were told by 2 different oracle partners 100% that 9.1 would no longer support concurrent users and we’d have to migrate to per user license and we’d have to pay for HR/Payroll/Time management on a per employee basis. After compiling the numbers and much haggling, the migration pricing came in slightly north of $500,000 plus raising our yearly maintenance nearly $60k per year. After weeks of talking with Oracle our partner etc, we decided to move away from JDE and look at alternatives.
Oracle and the partner have now significantly changed their tune once they found out we were done. They’ve agreed to a no cost upgrade, keeping our initial licensing intact. 100 Concurrent users and unlimited HR/Payroll/Time management users, the only cost for the software migration will be purchasing tech foundations, which was supposedly was not included in XE/8.0. The only caveat is we can’t purchase any additional or new licensing or any new features unless we agree to convert our entire licensing scheme over to the new format.
Is this typical? Any comments please?
Regards,
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I've inherited a JDE XE install that my company is looking to upgrade to 9.x.
We were originally World customers since 1994, in 2002(or so) we upgraded to XE. Right wrong or indifferent, we’ve paid our maintenance fee since the mid 90s without issue. Our contract in 2002 was upgraded to 100 concurrent users.
All of this was prior to my time here.
I’m now being asked to look at taking our company to 9.1, so we’ve talked to a couple Oracle partners and we’ve had a ton of discussion about licensing which has been needlessly insane. This has been going on for months while we’ve also been looking at some other ERP software more specific to our industry.
First, we were told by 2 different oracle partners 100% that 9.1 would no longer support concurrent users and we’d have to migrate to per user license and we’d have to pay for HR/Payroll/Time management on a per employee basis. After compiling the numbers and much haggling, the migration pricing came in slightly north of $500,000 plus raising our yearly maintenance nearly $60k per year. After weeks of talking with Oracle our partner etc, we decided to move away from JDE and look at alternatives.
Oracle and the partner have now significantly changed their tune once they found out we were done. They’ve agreed to a no cost upgrade, keeping our initial licensing intact. 100 Concurrent users and unlimited HR/Payroll/Time management users, the only cost for the software migration will be purchasing tech foundations, which was supposedly was not included in XE/8.0. The only caveat is we can’t purchase any additional or new licensing or any new features unless we agree to convert our entire licensing scheme over to the new format.
Is this typical? Any comments please?
Regards,
Name and detailed information held back.