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Product, price, and delivery
The product is the MQ + Kafka Modernization Decision Kit v2.0, supplied as a downloadable ZIP of reusable assessment materials. The price is $79 USD plus applicable tax. Checkout displays the final amount before payment is confirmed.
After successful payment, Stripe redirects you to secure digital delivery. Automatic download access remains available for 30 days and up to ten completed downloads. Save and back up the ZIP during that period.
Single-user license summary
The ZIP contains the complete Version 2.0 license. In summary, MarSemIT LLC grants the named purchaser a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to:
- Use the kit for the purchaser's own internal assessments.
- Use it in consulting assessments personally delivered by the purchaser.
- Modify the workbook, findings deck, and written outputs for those assessments.
- Provide clients with the purchaser's completed assessment outputs.
You may not redistribute, resell, sublicense, publish, or share the reusable source materials; remove origin notices; or imply endorsement by IBM, the Apache Software Foundation, or Confluent. Contact marcoa@marsem.org for expanded licensing.
Professional-use disclaimer
This kit is decision-support material for qualified practitioners. It does not replace an environment-specific architecture, security, legal, regulatory, capacity, failure-testing, change-control, or vendor-support review.
Scores, thresholds, effort assumptions, and sizing outputs are tunable planning inputs. You are responsible for calibration, testing, independent validation, and approval before acting on a recommendation.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the product and website are provided “as is” without warranties.
Refunds and customer rights
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Changes and contact
We may update these terms prospectively as the site or offering changes. Questions about these terms or the license can be sent to marcoa@marsem.org.