Re: NT DSA 7.22 $1,500/seat? For Real?

Talk to your reseller about OnLine Workgroup Server. The idea is that OWS for NT, at $295 per user, is designed for smaller NT systems (less than 4 Pentiums, or 2 RISCs - or did I get that backwards?). You give up PDQ (you're not going to gain much in the way of SMP at this point anyway) and gain Publish and Subscribe and graphical sys admin tools (IECC), etc.. Once you've outgrown that configuration, you either need to add CPU's (consider NT's scalability at this point) and move to OnLine DS at $1500 per, or UNIX. Yah, Informix has had to get competitive at the departmental level (with OWS), but certainly doesn't want to leave any money on the table on larger systems. Victor Tan wrote: > > I just got off the phone with an Informix reseller and she > claimed that the list price for Online 7.22 DSA for Windows > NT is $1,500 per seat. Is that correct? That seems very > high for a NT based RDBMS. I thought that the whole idea > was that with NT coming up and up for departmental level > database servers that Informix was being forced to charge > lower prices as the competition was Microsoft SQL Server and > Sybase SQL Anywhere etc... > > No, don't ask me why NT. I'm not going to get into it. > Yes, we already have lots of UNIX boxes so I know about > UNIX. > > Thanks. I really need to confirm this. >