AMENDMENT NUMBER FIVE TO SOFTWARE LICENSING AGREEMENT

EX-10.7E 8 dex107e.htm AMENDMENT FIVE TO SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT Amendment Five to Software License Agreement

EXHIBIT 10.7E

 

AMENDMENT NUMBER FIVE

TO SOFTWARE LICENSING AGREEMENT

 

This Amendment Number Five to Software Licensing Agreement (the “Amendment”), dated June 9, 2004, (the “Effective Date”) amends the terms of the Software License Agreement dated April 26, 2002, as amended (the “Agreement”) between Altiris, Inc., a Delaware corporation having a principal place of business at 588 W. 400 South, Lindon, Utah 84042 (“Licensor”) and Dell Products L.P. (“Dell”). Unless specifically modified or changed herein, the terms and conditions of the Agreement shall remain in effect. In the event of a conflict or inconsistency between the terms and conditions contained in this Amendment and the Agreement, the terms and conditions contained in this Amendment shall prevail.

 

Capitalized terms not specifically defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Agreement.

 

  1. All capitalized terms which are not defined in this Amendment shall have the meaning as set forth in the Agreement.

 

  2. Subsection 1.5 is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Licensor Application(s) shall mean and include all software products, Enabled Product(s), supporting documentation, and maintenance set forth in the Supplement and as updated from time to time on Licensor’s Dell Price List.”

 

  3. Section 1 of the Agreement is amended by adding the following new definition:

 

“1.22 Enabled Product(s) shall mean the Licensor software products or components that have been specifically designed by Licensor to integrate with Dell software tool kits for systems management, and designated on Licensor’s Dell Price List as Enabled Products.”

 

  4. Section 3.2 shall be amended to include the following new subsection:

 

“(g) Prices for Enabled Product(s). If Dell purchases directly from Licensor or from a mutually agreed upon licensed distributor of Licensor, the prices paid by Dell for Enabled Product(s) will be [*].

 

  5. Sections 3.6 and 12.5 shall be deleted in their entirety.

 

  6. Section 5.7 shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

“Support for Local Recovery Pro. With respect to Local Recovery Pro, Dell customers shall receive technical support, at no charge, by accessing the Licensor’s

 


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web-based “Technical Support Knowledge Base,” currently located at www.altiris.com/support. Should additional support be required or desired by a Dell customer, such customer may purchase Licensor’s “Incident Support Packs” either directly from Licensor or indirectly from Dell.”

 

  7. Section 5.0 shall be amended to include the following new subsection:

 

“5.8 During the term of this Agreement, Licensor shall, at Licensor’s expense, provide ongoing technical support, maintenance and support services for Enabled Product(s) that are server hardware related as set forth in Exhibit J, attached hereto. Should Licensor become aware of any reproducible errors or be notified by Dell of any errors in the Enabled Product(s), Licensor shall promptly take appropriate measures to correct such errors and provide corrections in accordance with the time frames set forth in Exhibit J. Licensor shall provide, at Licensor’s expense, assistance in correcting difficulties caused by errors, including, but not limited to, phone assistance for customers and Dell customer service staff. Dell will notify Licensor of any problems discovered with the Enabled Product(s). Such notification may be in writing or oral. Timely turnaround to software problem reports will be required. Problems must be fixed within the timeframes identified in Exhibit J.

 

  8. The first two sentences of Section 6.3 (as amended) shall be replaced with the following:

 

[*].

 

  9. Section 9.1 shall be replaced in its entirety with the following:

 

“Unless earlier terminated as provided below, the initial term of this Agreement shall be for six (6) years from the Effective Date of the Agreement and, unless either Party gives thirty (30) days notice of non-renewal prior to the end of the initial term, this Agreement shall automatically renew for successive one (1) year periods.”

 

  10. The following sentence of Section 9.2 shall be deleted in its entirety:

 

“Either Party may terminate this Agreement without cause upon 180 days prior written notice to the other Party.”

 

Agreed and Accepted:

DELL PRODUCTS, L.P.

     

Agreed and Accepted:

ALTIRIS, INC.

By:  

/s/ Joseph J. Kanicki

      By:  

/s/ Rob Wellman

Printed Name:  

Joseph J. Kanicki

      Printed Name:  

Rob Wellman

Title:  

Senior Manager

      Title:  

VP Strategic Alliances

Date:  

June 11, 2004

      Date:  

June 9, 2004

                 
        Reviewed by Altiris Legal
            by:   EKG
            Date:   6/9/04
                 

 


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Exhibit J

 

DELL SERVICE & SUPPORT SCHEDULE

FOR ENABLED PRODUCTS

 

Customer Entitlement to Altiris Technical Support

 

Altiris provides support to its customers according to the support descriptions found in the current “Altiris Support Offerings” document. Refer to that document for current, detailed descriptions of the services offered.

 

Altiris provides Online Support to all customers and potential customers using Altiris software. Online support includes a knowledge base and online support forum that contains many discussions about issues and solutions. Issues and solutions pertaining to the Altiris software and its operation on Dell hardware may be found and logged through Altiris Online Support.

 

If customers would like to speak directly with an Altiris Support representative, or would like to communicate directly via email, a support contract with Altiris must be purchased. Altiris offers several fee-based support services from incident-based support to Premium 7x24 support, to Assigned or Dedicated Support Engineer service. Altiris screens all customer calls and emails to ensure that they have a support contract in place before Altiris provides on-to-one assistance per the contract.

 

Dell sales personnel must be aware of the Altiris support policies and will sell the proper Altiris support contract based upon the needs of the customer. The customer will then be empowered to contact Altiris directly, or may choose to contact Dell directly if they feel that the issue is related to Dell hardware or software.

 

Resolution of a Customer Case

 

Dell and Altiris shall endeavor to respond to, and use commercially reasonable efforts to provide case remedies in a timely manner in accordance with the priority level identified in Table 1, and in accordance with that party’s support or maintenance agreement with such mutual customer. Dell will use every effort available to resolve issues involving Dell hardware and Altiris software.

 

Customers with an issue involving Altiris products should direct their call to Altiris support per the details outlined in their support contract. Altiris will provide all levels of support and fulfillment for Altiris-manufactured products based upon the support agreement that the customer has in place.

 

If a customer places an initial call to a Dell call center, the Dell representative will work with the customer to ensure that Dell product is not the root cause of the issue. Dell may engage Altiris (warm transfer) on the behalf of the Mutual Customer. Altiris will assist the customer as outlined in the then-current support agreement. Customers may be transferred to ###-###-#### for technical support. An Altiris Customer Service Representative will answer the call and ensure that the customer’s support entitlement is verified and that the proper support technician is reached.

 

In cases where the root cause of the issue has not been determined, Altiris and Dell will work cooperatively until the issue has been resolved, or the root cause of the issue has been determined to be generated by one of the manufacturer’s products.

 

Partnership on Escalated Issues

 

In certain cases the customer may lack a clear understanding whether the issue lies with Altiris or Dell. In cases such as these, Dell and Altiris will work jointly to resolve the issue.

 

Qualified Experts

 

In cases where Altiris and Dell are working together to resolve Severity 1 issues, both parties will provide real-time, qualified experts to work until resolution of the escalated issue has been met.


A qualified expert for Dell is defined as a Level 2 or higher technical support representative. A qualified expert for Altiris is defined as a Product Specialist or higher support representative. The qualified experts from Dell and Altiris will work seamlessly on the phone until the Severity 1 issue has been resolved or a suitable alternative solution can be agreed upon. In critical situations involving lengthy, real-time escalations, Dell and Altiris will provide the proper transition from expert to expert. Dell and Altiris will ensure that there are no delays in resolving the Severity 1 customer issue by seamlessly moving new experts onto the call to provide proper issue transition to the new expert (up to two hours) before the original expert’s shift ends.

 

Dell Service Contacts

 

Name


 

Role


 

Phone


 

Email


[*]

 

Engineering Contacts

 

As a part of Severity 1 issue handling, Altiris will provide engineering contacts for Dell’s Global Product Support Engineering team. Dell will also provide engineering contacts to Altiris for issues that involve Dell products under the same guidelines (long term sustaining issues).

 

Root Cause Analysis

 

Requests from the customer for root cause analysis shall be completed within ten (10) business days (on average) by Dell and Altiris.

 

Setting Severities

 

Because of the critical nature of the products supported in this agreement, the customer will set the severity of the issue. Dell representatives will work with the customer to help the customer understand and set the appropriate severity level of the issue.

 

Depending on the issue’s severity, Dell and Altiris will agree to move the escalated issues to the needed level.

 

Dell and Altiris will communicate escalations using the following severity level definitions:

 


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Table 1: Severity Definitions

 

Dell Severity Level


   Altiris
Severity
Level


  

Definition


   Time To
Resolve
(Average)


Severity Level 1-A

(Crit-Sit)

   ASAP   

Highest level of visibility

Enterprise Solution (SAN) or high end server down

Total loss or Major impact on revenue

   12 hours

Severity Level 1

   High   

High visibility

Server or high end server down (Single product down)

Major impact on revenue

   12 hours

Severity Level 2

   Medium-High   

Moderate visibility

Server or high end server impaired (limited use)

Moderate impact on revenue

   24 hours

Severity Level 3

   Medium   

Low to medium visibility

Server or high end server minimally impacted or in non production

Low impact on revenue

   36 hours

Severity Level 3

   Low   

Low to medium visibility

Server or high end server minimally impacted or in non production

Low impact on revenue

   48 hours

 

Dell and Altiris will strive to meet the following response times for incidents:

 

Table 2: Support Response Times

 

   

SEV 1-A/ASAP


 

SEV 1/High


 

SEV 2/Medium-High


 

SEV 3/Medium & Low


Level 1 Support

Response Time

Escalation Time:

 

Immediate

10 Min

 

Immediate

15 Min

 

Immediate

2 hours

 

Immediate

1 bus day

Level 2 Support

Response Time:

Escalation Time:

 

10 Min

1 Hr

 

15 Min

2-4 Hrs

 

2 hours

4-6 Hrs

 

1 Business day

1 Business day

Engineering:

Response Time:

 

TTR Goal

 

TTR Goal

 

TTR Goal

 

TTR Goal

 

Time in Severity (TIS)

 

Dell and Altiris will work towards a mutual Time In Severity (TIS) goal. TIS is Dell Enterprise Services’ key customer experience metric. TIS is defined as the duration the case spent in each pre-defined severity from the time the case was issued until the case is considered closed.

 

The following algorithms and goals will be used to measure TIS:

 

Table 3: TIS Algorithms

 

Severity


  

Calculation


   TIS Goal Average

SEV 1-A    (Timestamp of close or severity change – Timestamp of Sev 1-A issued) – (Customer Time)    12
SEV 1    (Timestamp of close or severity change – Timestamp of Sev 1 issued) – (Customer Time)    12
SEV 2    (Timestamp of close or severity change – Timestamp of Sev 2 issued) – (Customer Time)    24
SEV 3    (Timestamp of close or severity change – Timestamp of Sev 3 issued) – (Customer Time)    36


Customer Time is defined as: Time the customer defers or requests Dell to monitor after resolution has been provided. (i.e. Customer issue has been resolved, but customer would like us to monitor the case for the next 2 weeks)

 

On-Site Assistance

 

If the need arises for on-site assistance, Dell will move experts on-site with a goal of 4 hours. Altiris will provide on-site assistance as outlined in the customer’s Altiris support contract. In Severity 1-A or Severity 1 cases, Altiris and Dell may mutually agree that an on-site visit is required, at which time the terms of that site visit will be discussed and agreed upon. Once Dell and Altiris agree that on-site assistance is necessary, representatives from both parties will agree on a reasonable time frame to move an Altiris expert onsite. In cases where Dell or Altiris does not have personnel within a 125 mile radius of the area, personnel will be flown in upon joint agreement that an on-site visit is warranted. Due to the critical nature of these escalations, Dell and Altiris will jointly determine the owner of the associated costs (if any) with the on-site visit after the incident is closed.

 

Severity 1 and Severity 1-A Issues

 

Altiris and Dell will provide 7x24 original ownership on all Sev 1-A and Sev 1 issues. Both Dell and Altiris will provide single points of contacts on all Severity 1-A and Severity 1 issues. Dell utilizes a Technical Account Manager as the single point of contact for areas involving severe escalations. Altiris utilizes a Support Manager as the single point of contact for issues involving severe escalations.

 

Partner Escalation Manager

 

Should any escalation or engagement procedures fail, Dell’s Partner Escalation Manager will engage Altiris representatives to jointly resolve any issues.

 

Altiris Support Contacts

 

The following persons are the designated Altiris support contacts for Dell.

 

Role    Contact    Phone    Email
Level 2 Support Manager    [*]
Assigned Engineer Support Mgr.    [*]
Director Americas Support    [*]

 

Altiris/Dell Relationship Contacts

 

Role    Contact    Phone    Email
Director Americas Support    [*]
Alliance    [*]

 


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