CCH tells me they will no longer price by concurrent users. They use
firm head count. We have been forced to cancel some of there databases
as I only have five or less users but they wanted me to pay for the
entire firm. They all appear to be charging by attorney head count for
law firms. Concurrent users often times make more sense.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
Behalf Of David Whelan
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:04 PM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: [LAW-LIB:59519] Electronic DB Pricing: Concurrent vs. Warm Body
Most of our database licenses are priced (at least initially, if not
entirely) on a head count number. This seems to work in captive
organizations (firms, law schools) but we serve over 40,000 lawyers
and paralegals, many of whom are unable to access the services we
license. One vendor with whom we work used a starting head count of
20,000! We'd like to try to switch to a model based on concurrent
usage.
I've got two questions:
- which vendors are willing to negotiate concurrent licenses instead
of head count licenses? (I'm pretty sure CCH does, but correct me if
I'm wrong)
- how do you determine the price point for the concurrent users?
Thanks in advance for any help.
David.
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