license transfer fee

[Anonymous]

Our company is in the process of purchasing another Civil Eng. firm, who
have licensed software from Autodesk. We would of course expect to "take
ownership" of those licenses as well. Autodesk wants $1100.00 ea. to
transfer those licenses into our name. Is this a common practice with
software companies? I don't see how changing the names on some licensing
documentation would require such a huge fee. I know, it's cheaper than
buying new software from scratch, but if we are taking over a company's
"assists" including their software and are willing to maintain it, would we
not be "ponying up" the bucks when we renew our subscriptions for those same
licenses? I guess we just need factor the transfer fee into the
negotiations.
-Mike

[Anonymous]

The software slime is at least letting you transfer.
Some companies, Micro$oft does not allow that.
Remember the license to operate that software is an agreement between two corporate entities to allow usage of a particular software.
No entity no license.
Be thankful you can at least transfer.
>end rant<

John P.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately if Autodesk has approved the transfer at all. Count yourselves
as one of the Lucky Few. Even at that cost.

Allen

"MikeO" wrote in message
news:5128841@discussion.autodesk.com...
Our company is in the process of purchasing another Civil Eng. firm, who
have licensed software from Autodesk. We would of course expect to "take
ownership" of those licenses as well. Autodesk wants $1100.00 ea. to
transfer those licenses into our name. Is this a common practice with
software companies? I don't see how changing the names on some licensing
documentation would require such a huge fee. I know, it's cheaper than
buying new software from scratch, but if we are taking over a company's
"assists" including their software and are willing to maintain it, would we
not be "ponying up" the bucks when we renew our subscriptions for those same
licenses? I guess we just need factor the transfer fee into the
negotiations.
-Mike

[Anonymous]

I'm not so sure
At my last company there was a guy who was partners with one other partner.
They closed their company and the first guy kept his ADT licenses.
We hired the first guy and he gave us his licenses and we got some legal
letter thing
that said that we bought his company or merged I forget. But we got his
licenses.
From what I can remember its all in how you present the thing. But it is
legal to
purchase an entire company with its assets and autodesk licenses are assets

--
Dave

wrote in message news:5128881@discussion.autodesk.com...
The software slime is at least letting you transfer.
Some companies, Micro$oft does not allow that.
Remember the license to operate that software is an agreement between two
corporate entities to allow usage of a particular software.
No entity no license.
Be thankful you can at least transfer.
>end rant<

John P.

[Anonymous]

AutoDESK must approve the transfer of the license. We have had several corporate transfers over the last few years. The only time a fee that significant was incurred was due to an upgrade requirement at the time.

[Anonymous]

Thanks guys!

[Anonymous]

UPDATE: I found out through my reseller that Autodesk has waived all fees.
Very cool.

-MO