My opinion is that the smartest thing your client can do, is to ask you to help them as much as possible.

From my experience with SAP, the price they must pay you for helping them, will be peanuts compared to the problems they have in front of the. I know quite a lot of companies which have switched computer systems, and where the transition have taken a veeery long time, in one case more than three years. These companies had one thing in common, they all switched to SAP...!

>I have a long standing client, whose parent organisation is in the process of implementing a complete shift to an "ALL IN ONE" SAP package. I know I will loose this client, they are not happy about it, nor am I but the organisation knows best (apparently).
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>Anyway, the staff I deal with have now got to specify the SAP system they need. They have asked me to give them a listing of table structures, what each contains and relations between tables.
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>If I don't do this they will have to make it up (I like the staff, but they are not IT people!). I've pointed out that table sttuctures are an integral part of system design and therefore my copyright, although the data they contain belongs to them. Am I right?
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>One of my colleagues has suggested charge a sizeable "copyright release fee", I think this would not go down well, but since we are sure to loose them anyway....
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>Any opinions welcome to try and clarify my mind on what to do!
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>Gary Williams.