Ron, I feel your pain. It seems that some software companies think they have you over a barrel and can have their way with you.
But I want to challenge your assumption that your EDI system must be housed on the same device as your business application. EDI is a black box. What is the real reason it needs to reside on your HA system? Tradition? Comfort? When my company took EDI off our application server (AS/400) and placed it on a Windows server, it freed us from the mega-bucks EDI software we had been wedded to. When we converted from our AS/400-based application system to Oracle on HPUX, we were not required to convert EDI as a result. Today, we have the next generation of Windows-based EDI software - total capital investment including the server is under $25,000 . With that kind of price tag for a basic system, you could build a HA-type configuration that would blow away most mid-range systems performance and reliability for a fraction of what your budget may call for -- and keep your application server for the application. Hey, it's even better ... if the application server goes down, your EDI system is likely to still be up - and vice versa. PaperPak is very pleased with our Software Vendor, Softshare. They work with us on licensing issues - and they don't jerk us around the way you have described your current supplier is doing. They provide excellent products as well as maybe the best customer service in the industry. We use their ECS standard edition to manage scheduling and communication, including ASx, and Delta Enterprise edition for mapping and translation. We also use their VAN. Good luck to you, Art Douglas Manager, eCommerce Systems PaperPak San Dimas, CA 909-971-5025 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EDI-L] Looking for alternatives to Inovis TrustedLink iSeries software The subject says it all. We are looking to replace our TrustedLink software. We are in the process of setting up high availability on our systems and we are finding out that Inovis is going to charge us a 25% license fee to allow us to have their software on a HA machine. On top of that, they are now telling us that even if we have a true disaster where we have to switch to an alternate machine they are going to charge us that license fee for making the change. I have never heard of any other company requiring a license fee when you have a disaster. This is the straw that broke the camel's back. We are in the market to migrate away from Inovis. Any replacement still must run on the iSeries (or I5). Thank you, Ronald L. Zimmerman I.T. Applications Manager Swiss Valley Farms, Co. http://www.swissvalley.com "The Good for You Company" Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
