Yes we’re still on Vantage 6.10.543. The yearly Epicor Maintenance Agreement has been steadily growing. We are pretty much set in our ways and self sufficient when it comes to support, no more customizations needed. We rarely (maybe 2 times in the last 6 years) contact support and if we do its a general question. Any way, what happens if I decide not to pay the Maintenance?
Steve,
Nothing will happen to your current set up, it is yours and will continue to run until it dies.
No more support until you renew your maintenance (Which I think would be for all years missed)
No Upgrades
No new modules
No bug fixes (not that they are doing much for 6.1 now)
What are your plans for maintaining or re-implementing your system if your current server goes down?
Chris,
Thanks for the quick reply. So our 23 licenses will be intact? We won’t lose them? Also, I run a full backup of the server every night (19GB), small shop, small database. Have another server (same model) at the ready in case of failure.
As far as I have been told the system operates independently of Epicor when installed locally. That said I would make sure I have all the original installation disks and upgrade patches and hot fixes up thru the one you are on in a safe place. Also make sure you have all your license codes in case you have to rebuild from scratch.
I think there was someone in the forum that had 6.1 running on server 2008 haven’t heard of anything more recent than that. The client will at least install and work thru Windows 8.1.
Then test you disaster recovery worst case scenario before you go off maintenance.
We had installed the Vantage 6.1 client on one Windows 10 laptop using the Windows 7 installation instructions. It worked but I was told periodically error messages would appear and Vantage would close and they would have to log back in.
We recently moved to Epicor 10 so didn’t spent any additional time troubleshooting this configuration.