Radoslaw Skorupka is right to emphasize that an escrow agreement is not a panacea.
Such an agreement may be all but useless, but an able lawyer who understands the software-development process can write one that is useful in extremis. Moreover, the availability of such agreements sometimes makes it possible for initially small, startup ISVs to sell their new products to organizations that would otherwise be wary of buying them. They can certainly be problematic; but it is possible, even easy, to make long lists of potential inadequacies for just about any undertaking. (There are even some boilerplate lists of this sort available.) John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
