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To: Douglas G. Welnetz who wrote (5279)	3/27/1998 9:47:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10786

Douglas, while PTUS does offer a factory approach, by and large they license their tools for use in-house. They get a one-time license fee and then a small royalty on the number of lines of code that gets fixed. Thus, PTUS doesn't really know how much money a contract might be worth until much later. There's no guarantee the customer will end up even using the tools. ALYD, on the other hand, negotiates up front exactly how much code they will do and at what price. That's because ALYD will be doing the work themselves. I would also venture to say that ALYD can probably remediate millions of lines of code, test it, and return it to a customer well before that customer's programmers even finish the training sessions for a do-it-yourself Y2K tool. Reason enough to use a factory approach, IMO! - Jeff