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RESOLUTION 86--6101
A RESOLUTION TO CONTINUE THE ANNUAL
LICENSE FOR THE COGEN SOFTWARE ACQUIRED
FROM SOFTWARE CLEARING HOUSE PER
RESOLUTION NO. 83-705 DATED JUNE 28,
1983 AT A PROPOSED ANNUAL COST OF
$8,000 FOR FIVE YEARS AND THE
CONVERSION LICENSE FEE FOR XGEN
SOFTWARE AT A PROPOSED ONE TIME COST OF
$5,000 TO BE ACQUIRED AND PAID FOR FROM
THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTERS ANNUAL
BUDGET.
WHEREAS, the City acquired the COGEN software in 1983 to
reduce the cost and time required to develop application software
on the Burroughs B-7900 and;
WHEREAS, all of the application software developed since
1983, including all of Police systems, used COGEN software as a
development tool and;
WHEREAS, all new systems under development, including the
new Computer Aided Dispatching System for Fire and the On-line
Financial Management, uses COGEN as the development tool and;
WHEREAS, Jacksonville Software has developed an upgraded
conversion tool, XGEN that will provide better utilization of the
B-7900 and;
WHEREAS, a one time conversion cost will have to be
incurred for this upgrade to XGEN software and;
WHEREAS, Jacksonville Software has licensed the Software
Clearing House exclusive rights to license and support the
software package and;
WHEREAS, this license agreement cannot be obtained from
any other known source and the City Manager had made such
findings of unavailability in writing and;
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WHEREAS, the City Commission, after a properly advertised
public hearing, accepted and ratified the City Manager's findings
as per Resolution No. 83-705 to acquire the software in 1983;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA:
Section 1. The City Manager is hereby authorized to
instruct the Chief Procurement Officer to issue a purchase order
for the annual license fee of $8000 for COGEN and a one time
conversion cost of XGEN Software for $5000 to Software Clearing
House, with the cost of said acquisition to be paid from the
Department of Computers annual budget.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 24th day
JULY , 1986.
Xavier L. Suar
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PREPARED AND APPROVED BY:
ROBERT F. CLARK
CHIEF DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY
APPROVED/A� TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS:
CITY ATTORNEY
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CITY OF MIAMI. FLORIDA
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
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TO: The Honorable Mayor and DATE: July 17, 1986
Members of the City Commission
SUBJECT: RECOMMENDATION FOR
RESOLUTION FOR RENEWAL OF
ANNUAL LICENSE FROM SOFTWARE
CLEARING HOUSE
FROM: REFERENCES:
Cesar Odio
City Manager ENCLOSURES:
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It is recommended that the attached
resolution be approved for continuing
the annual license for five years for
COGEN software and approving payment
of a one time cost of $5000 for
upgrade to the XGEN release for our
application software.
it is recommended that the enclosed resolution be approved for
renewing the annual license for COGEN software acquired in 1983
for application development on the B-7900 computers.
The five year data processing plan prepared by the firm of Booz-
Allen and Hamilton in 1983, established the sequence and time
frame for the development of all major computer applications in
the City of Miami. During the initial implementation phases of
the plan, it was determined that the development of applications
using traditional COBOL programming would be too expensive and
time consuming. Therefore, the decision to use a fourth
generation code generator was made and COGEN was acquired gto
accelerate the development process.
The use of. the COGEN software proved very beneficial, the
development time for application programs have been cut in half
and productivity gains of over 70 percent in code generation have
been realized.
The new release of the software called XGEN will further increase
the operating efficiency of our system. An annual license fee of
$8000 is required to receive maintenance support and software
patches from the vendor.
Thank You.
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