IWMS expert and Lucernex President, Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here), discusses use of third party software licenses in IWMS.

So here is one of the dirty little secrets of all software vendors including almost all IWMS vendors. Has this happened to you? Your company begins a product selection and ask for preliminary pricing from vendors to make sure they are in the ballpark. They provide informal pricing. You pick your finalists and send out the RFP. When you look at the pricing provided in the RFP you notice the pricing they provided is shown but there is also a list of required third party licenses; often not including the prices of those licenses (which probably makes you think they are negligible).
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