We've actually used Open Source products, and if determined to be mission critical, have found ISVs that will support that software at a minimal cost.
With the latest hoopla around DB2 Webquery, that is one of the options I'm looking at.
-ken
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jack Woehr via MIDRANGE-L
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Subject: [ EXTERNAL ] Re: Annual Maintenance
Open source called and left a message for you ... 😁😁
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 7:33 AM Greg Wilburn < gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Over the past several years, ONE of our software vendors has increased
their annual maintenance more than 35% (2021-2024).
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