Re: Maintenance prices DOUBLED?

Truly sad... Chucho! Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > 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) > -- Atte, Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo ----------------------------------- jeansagi@myrealbox.com jeansagi@netscape.net sending to informix-list