Informix Licensing and Pricing Schemes.
I finally received a quote on buying new Informix software. It came attached with sticker shock. Our setup is pretty simple. We have a PC loaded with Linux (Redhat 6.0). Our software was written using RDS and SE is the DB Engine. When we started users were connected with Wyse terminals but now everyone telnets to the server to execute the program. There is one developer, me. The software is mature enought that I rarely do any maintenance. There are five employees who use the system. Occasionally there will be more than one login to the server. Max processes is probablly about nine. When I first started with Informix I purchased SE, RDS and ISQL developer licenses. We were told that licensing was for use on one computer. When we opened another office a runtime license was purchased for that system. Seems pretty straightforward to me. Now with this quote I'm told that I need a devloper license for each product (no problem there), but that I need a runtime license for EACH process that runs on the computer. That means nine runtimes of each. I'm the only one that uses ISQL so that one is a no brainer, but nine runtimes of SE and RDS? The quote came to a little over $10k. That's $2k per user. If I were running client server I could see buying runtimes for each computer. I purposely set things up so that we did not have to. So, is my understanding of licensing wrong? Frankly, for $10k I could convert the whole system to another database. If any resellers would like to contact me with a quote, use vince at totalsense.com email address.
BigVinnie wrote: > I finally received a quote on buying new Informix software. It came > attached with sticker shock. > <snipped> > > The quote came to a little over $10k. That's $2k per user. > > If I were running client server I could see buying runtimes for each > computer. I purposely set things up so that we did not have to. > > So, is my understanding of licensing wrong? > > Frankly, for $10k I could convert the whole system to another database. > > If any resellers would like to contact me with a quote, use vince at > totalsense.com email address. Feel free to contact me ... beating $2K/user shouldn't be terribly difficult ... of course I'd be taking you up on converting the entire system. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Contact your Informix account manager. Explain the situation and he should be able to requote you. Did you contact Danilo? Danilo Novelli 1-305-442-3604 danilo@us.ibm.com If you mention this to him he a) can organise a requote b) can send the message to IBM sales that they need to rethink their quoting in this scenario. This is exactly the stuff we need to feed back to IBM otherwise nothing will change. The IBM sales guys are ALWAYS asking for more feedback from their customers. Let me know how it goes?
Sorry for wrong subject on previous from me. Here it is again. License is based on user login, NOT the number of server connections for a user, also you only need a single user devel license. This has been like this in Australia since I started using Informix SE and 4GL devel back in 1984. So unless IBM have changed things, I would think your quote is wrong. Rod. ----- Original Message ----- From: "BigVinnie" <BigVinnieRocks@gwhizmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 4:31 AM Subject: Informix Licensing and Pricing Schemes. > I finally received a quote on buying new Informix software. It came > attached with sticker shock. > > Our setup is pretty simple. We have a PC loaded with Linux (Redhat > 6.0). Our software was written using RDS and SE is the DB Engine. > > When we started users were connected with Wyse terminals but now > everyone telnets to the server to execute the program. > > There is one developer, me. The software is mature enought that I > rarely do any maintenance. > > There are five employees who use the system. Occasionally there will be > more than one login to the server. Max processes is probablly about nine. > > When I first started with Informix I purchased SE, RDS and ISQL > developer licenses. We were told that licensing was for use on one > computer. When we opened another office a runtime license was purchased > for that system. Seems pretty straightforward to me. > > Now with this quote I'm told that I need a devloper license for each > product (no problem there), but that I need a runtime license for EACH > process that runs on the computer. That means nine runtimes of each. > I'm the only one that uses ISQL so that one is a no brainer, but nine > runtimes of SE and RDS? > > The quote came to a little over $10k. That's $2k per user. > > If I were running client server I could see buying runtimes for each > computer. I purposely set things up so that we did not have to. > > So, is my understanding of licensing wrong? > > Frankly, for $10k I could convert the whole system to another database. > > If any resellers would like to contact me with a quote, use vince at > totalsense.com email address. > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >