Re: SCO/Informix on Pentium?

rshwake@rsxtech.com (Raymond Shwake) wrote: >jay@ucfc.mhs.compuserve.com (Jay Aymond) writes: >>Simon Bunce <simonb@misslink.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>>We have a couple of Compaq machines with 486/66 processors running Informix >>>On-Line v5.00.UD5 on SCO 3.2v4.2. >>>Will this software install and run without problems on Pentium machines? >>Yes, it will run just fine --- but you should upgrade your Informix licenses to the Intel Pentium >>Platform to reamin legal. > Oh, give us a break. This comment simply represents the interests of >those vendors pushing tier-based pricing. Sadly, most of the DBMS vendors are >wedded to this licensing model. It says, in effect, that they want/deserve >more of your money if you choose, and can afford, to run their application on >a higher performing processor (or simply a more expensive box) at any given >user level. > I and my organization have for years argued with the likes of Informix >and Oracle for *user* based licensing. It should be, after all, *none of >their business* what processor I choose to use for any given number of users, >any more than they should look at the memory, or disk controller. Apropos, >some years ago we got into an argument with Informix which wanted some $20,000 >more to run their product on one HP model over another, the only difference >between those models being the number of *expansion slots*. We told them to >"take a walk". I do not repesent a RDBMS vendor --- I was only making a statement regarding the license aggreement as stated by Informix. As far as tier-based pricing, on every platform I have ever worked on --- from mini-computers to mainframes, the price of the software has be related to the size of the box that it ran on. ************************************************************** Jay Aymond United Companies Life Insurance Company Email: jay@ucfc.mhs.compuserve.com **************************************************************