Re: Support for Informix 7.24

>I wish you all worked for a huge insurance company like mine that has to >budget 6 months ahead of time for large expenses and then has to request >approval from a committee that can take 6-12 months to approve expedentures >of over $75,000. Since we are talking more like over $1,000,000 (software >and hardware) there is no way for me to speed up this process no matter >what >kind of a case I would make. Ok, so play the game... seek out on call support at x rate per hour min 10 hours per week. Now make it a 3 month contract with possible ext. Work the dollars and the time to where it fits under the 75k or your departments cap. For accounting, many companies accept exps. of 9,000 when their cap is 10,000, with only a wink. Look at what you are allowed and then work backwards. >Again I didn't appreciate some of the insults that I received - some by >private email, but I do appreciate the well intended advice. Insults would have been from those of limited knowledge so please excuse them. For the most part IMHO this group seeks to make things work by choosing 2 of 3 choices. 1) cheap 2) fast 3) good... pick 2 The support you are seeking is available, keeping the above choices in mind. >Maybe I should find a job somewhere with less red tape. Where there are accountants... > >In article <8qqu24$agk$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, > jblatz2@my-deja.com wrote: > > We have Online Dynamic Server 7.24. We are not in a position to upgrade > > all of our applications for at least another year or two. > > > > I just found out that Informix no longer supports ver 7.24. I found it > > out by accident, Informix never notified us even though we have been > > paying them a fortune in yearly maintenance. > > > > Does anyone know of a third party company that provides hotline support? > > We have been pretty lucky and have not needed support for some time, but > > even one database corruption problem could bring us to our knees pretty > > quickly. > > > > Thanks > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > > Before you buy. > > > > >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ >Before you buy. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.