Re: Maintenance prices DOUBLED?
A small shop (a dozen users) reported a huge jump in Informix maintenance/support costs and pressure from management to move to MS SQL Server. Suggestions were to check licensing edition and make sure they were on Workgroup rather than Enterprise, with one poster noting SQL Server replication compares badly to HDR. Discussion then stalled on conflicting information about whether Workgroup Edition still existed: IBM had told one poster it was gone, yet others said it was still on price lists and licences had recently been sold via Openline. No resolution on pricing is recorded, just joking about IBM's inconsistent messaging.
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Paul Watson wrote: > Interestingly I was told by IBM today that Workgroup no longer exists I am "sceptical" about this assertion. > Ben Thompson wrote: >> >> Tim Ertl wrote: >> >> > We just got socked by a HUGE increase in Maintenance. Has anyone else? >> >> No, and this is coming from a UK-perspective, I understand that IBM are >> tightening up on who has workgroup and enterprise editions and what they >> pay for support. I don't think the price has changed much though. >> >> > This is bad news for me since some of our management group seems to >> > love the idea of M/S SQL server. >> >> We have a few SQL Server implementations and the replication is a >> nightmare when compared with HDR. Schema changes can be very problematic >> - so bad that we're migrating some of the larger systems to Informix. >> >> > Anybody find a better way to get a good price on this. We are a small >> > company with only a dozen Informix users. Help! >> >> Make sure you use Workgroup edition? -- "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche
So was I, but it's not our price lists:-( Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > Paul Watson wrote: > > > Interestingly I was told by IBM today that Workgroup no longer exists > > I am "sceptical" about this assertion. > > > Ben Thompson wrote: > >> > >> Tim Ertl wrote: > >> > >> > We just got socked by a HUGE increase in Maintenance. Has anyone else? > >> > >> No, and this is coming from a UK-perspective, I understand that IBM are > >> tightening up on who has workgroup and enterprise editions and what they > >> pay for support. I don't think the price has changed much though. > >> > >> > This is bad news for me since some of our management group seems to > >> > love the idea of M/S SQL server. > >> > >> We have a few SQL Server implementations and the replication is a > >> nightmare when compared with HDR. Schema changes can be very problematic > >> - so bad that we're migrating some of the larger systems to Informix. > >> > >> > Anybody find a better way to get a good price on this. We are a small > >> > company with only a dozen Informix users. Help! > >> > >> Make sure you use Workgroup edition? > > -- > "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" > - Coluche -- Paul Watson # Oninit Ltd # Growing old is mandatory Tel: +44 1436 672201 # Growing up is optional Fax: +44 1436 678693 # Mob: +44 7818 003457 # www.oninit.com #
"Paul Watson" <paul@oninit.com> wrote in message news:3FE8CC84.994A088C@oninit.com... > So was I, but it's not our price lists:-( > > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > > > Paul Watson wrote: > > > > > Interestingly I was told by IBM today that Workgroup no longer exists > > > > I am "sceptical" about this assertion. We sold some Workgroup licences last month, through Openline rather than Passport Advantage admittedly. I'll look it up on the PA site when I've got half an hour to spare waiting for the site to load ....
Maybe IBM's right hand is still not speaking to the left:-)) Neil Truby wrote: > > "Paul Watson" <paul@oninit.com> wrote in message > news:3FE8CC84.994A088C@oninit.com... > > So was I, but it's not our price lists:-( > > > > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > > > > > Paul Watson wrote: > > > > > > > Interestingly I was told by IBM today that Workgroup no longer exists > > > > > > I am "sceptical" about this assertion. > > We sold some Workgroup licences last month, through Openline rather than > Passport Advantage admittedly. > I'll look it up on the PA site when I've got half an hour to spare waiting > for the site to load .... -- Paul Watson # Oninit Ltd # Growing old is mandatory Tel: +44 1436 672201 # Growing up is optional Fax: +44 1436 678693 # Mob: +44 7818 003457 # www.oninit.com #
Paul Watson wrote: > Maybe IBM's right hand is still not speaking to the left:-)) What? Surely not! > Neil Truby wrote: >> >> "Paul Watson" <paul@oninit.com> wrote in message >> news:3FE8CC84.994A088C@oninit.com... >> > So was I, but it's not our price lists:-( >> > >> > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >> > > >> > > Paul Watson wrote: >> > > >> > > > Interestingly I was told by IBM today that Workgroup no longer >> > > > exists >> > > >> > > I am "sceptical" about this assertion. >> >> We sold some Workgroup licences last month, through Openline rather than >> Passport Advantage admittedly. >> I'll look it up on the PA site when I've got half an hour to spare >> waiting for the site to load .... -- "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche
"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:bsbk9r$bqmj1$1@ID-64669.news.uni-berlin.de... > Paul Watson wrote: > > > Maybe IBM's right hand is still not speaking to the left:-)) > > What? Surely not! In my experience its right hand is too furiously engaged in some other activity to have time for communication ...
Not an image I need :-) Captain Pedantic wrote: > > "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:bsbk9r$bqmj1$1@ID-64669.news.uni-berlin.de... > > Paul Watson wrote: > > > > > Maybe IBM's right hand is still not speaking to the left:-)) > > > > What? Surely not! > > In my experience its right hand is too furiously engaged in some other > activity to have time for communication ... -- Paul Watson # Oninit Ltd # Growing old is mandatory Tel: +44 1436 672201 # Growing up is optional Fax: +44 1436 678693 # Mob: +44 7818 003457 # www.oninit.com #
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