Selling a product as an OEN licence

[Xeon]

While you real men are obessed with buzzwords like "weapons of mass destruction", "Iraq", "George W. Bush", "Bio-terrorism", "nuclear arms", "The American people" and "chemical warfare" etc....I've a different question to ask.

Suppose you've a piece of software and a company(PC integrator[a company like Dell, Compaq etc. that assembles and sells whole PCs from indivivual parts]) approaches you and ask you to sell your software to them as an OEM licence. This means that they pay you some fees and your software gets integrated in their PCs.

For example, Dell.
Dell is a PC integrator and their PCs comes with Windows XP Home edition. This particular copy of Windows XP that comes with Dell PCs are actually OEM licences.

My question is : is there any pricing guide I can follow to sell my software as an OEM licence? I know it usually involves charging a one-time fee, usually in at least hundreds of dollars to tens of thousands?!

I'm a total fool in this, and I know most of you are programmers, not business guys. But surely....some of you folks have seen the PC world much much more than I did, right from the start of the Windows revolution to the digital era nowadays.

Thanks a lot!
Xeon.

[scarab_cn]

Hi,Xeon
If you are confident to your software product, you should engage a adviser who is good at these.

[Xeon]

From Scarab_CN:

Hi,Xeon
If you are confident to your software product, you should engage a adviser who is good at these.

Then I need to save up for 70 years. Thanks a lot anyway. Just asking.

[Mick]

Originally posted by scarab_cn
Hi,Xeon
If you are confident to your software product, you should engage a adviser who is good at these.

Yep. A (shudder) buisness lawyer would be the way to go...

[Xeon]

From Mick:

Yep. A (shudder) buisness lawyer would be the way to go...

Actually, I really fear legal stuff more than anything else......not because of the law and punishment.......but because of the zillions and zillions of words you have to read and understand in these lawyer's documents!!!!!!! Argh!!!!!!

Plus, these words ain't interesting words. I would fall into my DreamLand after looking at the first few sentences alone.

[mwilliamson]

Dell actually uses thier own modified version of Windows XP, and it is different from the standard oem xp.

[Xeon]

From MWilliamson:

Dell actually uses thier own modified version of Windows XP, and it is different from the standard oem xp.

My, logical! I believe the same applies to Acer and Compaq computers too, cos' the Windows OSes in these systems have their company and pre-installed software(within the Windows CD) logos here and there.

[mwilliamson]

Actually, all you need to put your company name in is a logo and windows pre-load disk, which you get if you are microsoft certified whatever. At a company I used to work at we had our logo and phone number in the system properties too. All you have to do is put in this pre-configured disk and boot up the system.

[Xeon]

From MWilliamson:

Actually, all you need to put your company name in is a logo and windows pre-load disk, which you get if you are microsoft certified whatever. At a company I used to work at we had our logo and phone number in the system properties too. All you have to do is put in this pre-configured disk and boot up the system.

Thanks for the information, Sam! Now, I see.