Updates, Upgrades and Maintenance Reinstatements
Fujitsu
Computer Systems' update, upgrade and maintenance reinstatement
policy is designed to encourage you to stay current on maintenance
agreements as this gives us a sure platform for planning future
releases. This topic explains update, upgrade and maintenance
reinstatement pricing for different situations.
Update - by "update" we mean receiving a new release of a product you already have.
For example, you have release 1.3 and we come out with a new version of that product numbered 1.4 or
2.0.
Upgrade - by "upgrade" we mean the situation where you have a particular product and now want
to change to a more expensive edition of that product or a related product. For example, upgrading
from a Professional Edition to an Enterprise Edition, or upgrading from the Windows version to a
.NET version.
Customers with a current maintenance agreement
Customers who are current on maintenance receive:
- free updates
- credit when upgrading to a more expensive version
When an update to a product is released all customers with up-to-date maintenance are informed and
have the ability to download the update release at their convenience.
A customer on current maintenance also has the ability to choose to upgrade to a more highly priced
product and receive full credit for the price paid for the software portion of their present license
as a discount on the new purchase.1 Current examples of qualifying NetCOBOL upgrades:
- Windows
Professional to: Windows Enterprise, or .NET Developer,
or .NET Universal
- Windows
Enterprise to: .NET Universal
- .NET
Professional to: .NET Developer, or .NET Universal
- .NET
Developer to: .NET Universal
- Sparc Standard
to: Sparc Enterprise
- HP-UX Standard
to: HP-UX Enterprise
Updating to a new release when maintenance has lapsed
If you decide you want to update to a new release of a product, having allowed
your maintenance to lapse, your update price is based on:
- Reinstating your maintenance see section below , and
- Adding an update fee equal to 20% of the current product price.
Reinstating maintenance when maintenance has lapsed and there has been no update release of
the product since the lapse
If you decide to reinstate your maintenance and there has been no update release since your
maintenance lapsed, you will purchase 12 months maintenance but the reinstatement price and
starting/end date is determined by how long your maintenance has been lapsed:
| Maintenance Renewal |
If
any new release comes out after maintenance has lapsed,
an additional 20% of current product price will be charged
in addition to all of the following late fees to obtain
the new release. Fujitsu Computer Systems only supports
the current release of all products. |
| Time Late |
Penalty (all maintenance costs refer to current annual price of maintenance, i.e. 20% of
current price) |
| 1st month |
Renewal is full cost of 1 year maintenance, and renews for 11 months from date of lapse |
| 2nd month |
Renewal is full cost of 1 year maintenance, and renews for 10 months from date of lapse |
| 3rd month |
Renewal is full cost of 1 year maintenance, and renews for 9 month from date of lapse |
| 3 + Months |
Renewal is full cost of maintenance from first day of lapse to last day of current month,
plus cost of 1 year maintenance ending on last day of current month in following year, plus
delinquent fee of 25% of cost of 1 year maintenance |
