Perpetual licensing is no more. It is not resting ... it is stone dead.Further to the update in our May'22 blog Broadcom have announced a 'simplified offering lineup and licensing model' that will - of most interest - put an end to the availability of perpetual licenses. The statement itself is quite definitive:
To challenge any degradation in your position you'll need the facts - the basis of your original position to compare to where you have arrived, and this may well be some years down the track, so again this is where a robust SAM function will step-up with the analytics and the matter of record to enable such a conversation to occur. Overall - a sad chapter in the history of software licensing. Where choice is removed from the client it can only be bad.
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in a major narrowing of ITAM / ISAM providers in the market ...Flexera's announcement would suggest that the "Joint offering and strengthened partner network will provide customers with more data and capabilities to understand their IT environments, manage cost and reduce risk", and interestingly (at least for now) state that they will "continue to innovate, enhance, maintain, and support both Flexera and Snow solutions". Now for those organizations that aren't flush with funds, and don't need a full FinOp's solution, but perhaps just want to get across their IT hardware and software landscape and garner control of those assets why not look at the niche solutions market here - including our own ComplianceWare product - you might well find that you can have a product at a much lower cost that meets your needs and solves the problems you have, without over investing in inflated platforms that are over-loaded, over-sold, and over-priced for what you actually need.
Published on their Customer Support website HCL have advised that charges across renewals and the full software catalogue price list are increasing by a hefty 15%, which is likely to burden already stretched IT budgets. And while the impacts of this jump are fully considered, keep a lookout for similar announcements from other software vendors - these announcements tend to come in waves. So best get prepared for your upcoming renewals with those arguable positions, concessions, additions or any available means to minimize your uplifts, along with the inevitable explanations to those in your organization who believe (others) costs should only go down, never up!
Firstly, lets take a look at the Terms of the Acquisition (all figures approximate)
... all very interesting, but what might it mean to us as customers?
So if you are a client of either Opentext or Micro Focus it would seem timely to review your licensing position in detail, ie. collect:
If you detect any discrepancies deal with them as a priority (remembering of course that there are likely footprints across your IT landscape over a good period of time), so remediate knowingly and accordingly. Also review your renewal dates and plans - if it falls into or around Q1/Q2 2023 it might serve well to request a renewal quote early to use as a comparison should the actual transaction occur under any new conditions or contracts. And as we've said before, keep an active watch on the Account Exec's/Managers you have with these two vendors - where changes are communicated it can be a pretty reliable indicator that there might be an audit letter in the post. So once again, a market shift that means its time to review, validate, confirm and ... prepare!
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