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Monday’s Musings: Decoupling Support From Maintenance - What Apps Vendors Can Learn From Microsoft Dynamics

Monday’s Musings: Decoupling Support From Maintenance – What Apps Vendors Can Learn From Microsoft Dynamics

By R "Ray" Wang on March 8, 2010

Who Says Support Has To Be Bundled With Maintenance?
About a decade back, vendors would offer support and maintenance as two separate line items on their contracts.  Support would run about 5 to 10% the license fee and so would maintenance.  Keep in mind, average support and maintenance fees were under 15% back then.  Here’s a […]

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