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Article: SIM takes tough position on software licensing. (the Society for Information Management will ask software vendors to change pricing practices and to provide better quality software) (Newsfront ) (Brief Article)
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- Software Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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The Society for Information Management (SIM), Chicago, and its worldwide membership of 2,700 senior IT executives have agreed to form a taks force aimed at convincing software vendors to change pricing practices, which many members say are inadequate in today's distributed open systems, global environment.
"As a spokesbody, SIM should take a strong position on procurement," said Harvey Shrednick, senior vice president, Information Services, Corning, Inc., New York City, during the recent SIM conference in Rancho ...