Lol.
May be those fees are annual licensing fees. And who knows what else is tied to that (support contracts, etc)?
I once enabled my company to forgo a license renewal of $10k…after 3 months of heavy work. Not really a big savings. But it also then eliminated an annual $1 mil in servicing fees that they would’ve had to pay for 10 years, by contract (so saved $10 mil). That we didn’t know when I started.
Care to clarify?