RE: Maintenance prices DOUBLED?

Posted in 2003

Colin Bull — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:20:08 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Tim Ertl > > We just got socked by a HUGE increase in Maintenance. Has anyone else? > > 12/2001 we had $5k > 12/2002 we had $6k > 12/2003 we have $10,600 (after bartering down from $11,056) > > This is bad news for me since some of our management group > seems to love > the idea of M/S SQL server. > > Anybody find a better way to get a good price on this. We are a small > company with only a dozen Informix users. Help! > We were forced to upgrade to 9.4 because of the way IBM priced our support. The original quote was about 10 times the previous figure. Our current deal is about 8 times yours for 10 live CPUs and 30 developers. Colin Bull c.bull@videonetworks.com sending to informix-list