Jason McGregor manages an IT department for a large corporation. Kelly Preston, vice president for marketing, has asked him to help her evaluate two statistical packages for monitoring customer...

Jason McGregor manages an IT department for a large corporation. Kelly Preston, vice president for marketing, has asked him to help her evaluate two statistical packages for monitoring customer purchases. Stat-Max costs $912,000, requires 2 gigabytes of disk storage space and 80 programmer hours for customization, and has no annual license fee. The software vendor provides 150 hours of user training and offers 24-hour technical support. Buy Tracker costs $500,000, requires 2 gigabytes of disk storage space and 125 programmer hours for customization, and carries a $10,000 annual license fee. The software vendor provides 150 hours of user training and offers technical support from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Standard Time. Required: What information is relevant to the decision to purchase one of these statistical packages?