Malcolm--


>I insist that my customers pay escrow fees plus (at least) one day of billable time that I use to prepare, test and ship a package suitable for escrowing.
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That is a suggestion that I heard from the escrow agent sales types. Makes sense.


>When I prepare an escrow package, I ship not only my source code, but copies of my development tools, add-on utilities, etc. I package everything up, with instructions, and ship via CD.

Some escrow agents have an FTP site.


>Some companies may insist that you ship an installable version of your development environment so a remote developer can rebuild your application and do a binary comparison between their build and your current production build to insure that you've shipped all the source code.

The binary compare is good idea from the customer point of view, but this is the first time that I heard of it. My customers are probably not sophisticated enough to think of it.

Thanks.

Tim