On 28 December 2011 20:58, Brian Westerman <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't mean to be flippant, but I seriously almost spit my diet coke all > over my screen when I read the previous reply about allowing the software > company to audit their system. :) > > I really don't think any site would readily agree to have their site > "audited" by a software company for compliance. > > It sounds good to say that, but in reality I really really doubt that anyone > at just about any site would agree to it. I can just imagine the dead > silence that would happen when a marketing person says "oh yeh, and we will > be here in sometime during the year and audit all of your CPU's and LPARs to > make sure we can "really" trust you". > > After the silence, the sale would disappear. :) > > Please don't take offense with my response. It just took me by surprise.
I've seen Fortune 500 companies happily sign mainframe software contracts with vendor written auditing provisions; others who[se lawyers] routinely snipped out the auditing paragraph without comment, and others who negotiated the details. BTW, a number of popular desktop software products from well known vendors have audit clauses in the click-through licence agreement. Usually corporate Contracts doesn't see those, and it's less than clear if the individual employee can bind the company by clicking Accept. I've also seen what happened when a vendor tried to do an audit - consisting of asking for a subset of SMF records - on a random set of customers, some with audit clauses and some without, and for the most part it wasn't pleasant in either case. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
