Re: Maintenance prices DOUBLED?

Maelwys Filidh wrote: > > Don't know about support pricing, but new licence pricing certainly had > changed the last time I asked for a price (5 users IDS Workgroup). It took > over 2 weeks to get a quote from IBM, and it was 50% more expensive than > from Informix, not to mention horribly complicated. This was in November > this year. > > My company is now seriously looking at alternative RDBMS. > > Sarky comment follows > However I'm not surprised. We have a state of the art passenger > information system, using GPRS, GPS, WAP and the Web to get real time info > on buses to bus stops, mobile phones PCs and so on. Developed from scratch > in the last 4 years, using IDS as the database. Been on Radio 4, support > from Mayor Ken, running in several cities. Why on earth would Informix > want to deal with us? Their colouring in department might actually have to > do some marketing and that would never do. Actually, Informix has less of a marketing department now than ever before. The correct assertion is "Why on earth would IBM want to deal with us?" and the answer is that unless you have multiple millions to spend, the administrative process isn't worth the financial gain. :o) -- "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ''' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche