Minor correction to Klaus' statements:
"But for a moment, just to show how quickly this figure mushrooms, let's
assume it was retro-active for demonstration purpose. Most X12
commercial translator support the majority, if not all, of the X12
standards, for the 005xxx and 006xxx sets, applying such a maintenance
fee for this year, besides the $800 for the current set, it would also
require 9 x $160, a total of $1754. With each new release that figure
will increase by another $160. Boy, what a "cash cow" that is."
As far as I know most commercial translator vendors don't buy the
equivalent of the standards on CD. They buy the "table data", which is
priced at $15,000 for members and $7,500 for non-members. The 20% annual
fee for those products comes to $3,000 and $1,500 respectively.
Mike
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Michael C. Rawlins, Senior Software Engineer, GXS
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On 6/30/2013 1:12 PM, Klaus-Dieter Naujok wrote:
>
>
> On Jun 29, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Leah Halpin wrote:
>
> > I would join my esteemed colleague Klaus-Dieter in asking for an
> explanation of this change in policy that provides any actual value
> for the annual fee.
>
> Leah, personally I don't care what DISA (X12) uses as argument(s) for
> their table data pricing. I don't question Mikes' account, it's Déjà
> vu for me. I was part of the original discussion, many many years ago,
> by the X12 StC when they agreed to bump up the table data price. It
> was the argument that most of those buying the table data never
> participated in the development but benefited through their product
> sales, and therefore should paying much more then X12 members.
>
> At that time I argued against it, making the point that in the end it
> will always be the users that will buy the higher price. Further, as
> we have seen over and over again, standards that price themselves too
> high may end up of becoming less relevant, especially if there are
> "free" standards available in the same domain area. We will see in
> time if the new pricing policy will have a negative effect on
> implementations.
>
> > Which, if it applies going forward, will mean 20% per version per
> year, which will become less trivial as time rolls on.
>
> Agree. Since the new pricing statement reads "Beginning with 006050,
> the price covers the use of the ASC X12 EDI Standard 006050 (Product)
> for one year....", we are lucky that it is not retro-active.
>
> But for a moment, just to show how quickly this figure mushrooms,
> let's assume it was retro-active for demonstration purpose. Most X12
> commercial translator support the majority, if not all, of the X12
> standards, for the 005xxx and 006xxx sets, applying such a maintenance
> fee for this year, besides the $800 for the current set, it would also
> require 9 x $160, a total of $1754. With each new release that figure
> will increase by another $160. Boy, what a "cash cow" that is.
>
> Lucky :-) for those that require those tables, for now it is only
> $800, but with each release that cost per year will increase and as
> Leah said "it will become less tribal."
>
> Klaus
>
>
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