Re: Informix Pricing

slitel@cadre.com (Stuart Litel) writes: Greetings, yes; Informix will now deliver all Version 6 products on a per user basis. You've got about half the story on configuration. User based pricing does not pertain to existing Version 4.x and Version 5 products, although upgrade options do apply for some engine products. There's a lot of options, some of which are regional, don't expect anyone to detail our pricing schedules and policies over the net - what's the point? If you're already talking to someone, just ask them to provide more answers, there's nothing secretive or clandestine about our pricing or policies. Regards Adam >Last week I was down in Florida to meet with Informix and a local company and >the salesperson from Informix we met with said something very interesting... >Informix is going to User Based Pricing.... >What does this mean - well all Informix products will be sold as a bundle >where it would include SQL, 4GL and the engine and sold for a price of >$1200 per user for development regardless of the machine! >How interesting -> what happens if you want to get both the compiled version >and RDS? >BTW, I was also informed of the following: >1) The runtime would be $900 per user >2) The software also cam e fully bundled and not only included the above, but >also I-Net! >3) The is no MINIMUM officially (# of users) by the sales people were told to >try and shy away from deals of less then 5 development users. >I did not ask about esql-c and did not go that deep into the pricing information >but has anyone else heard this? Apparently this has been in effect since 1/1/94. >Can anyone out there shed some light on this or Bill Daul are you out there to >help us on some info? >Stuart Litel -- # Regards | # rm -r tmp /* # Adam Green, Federal Office, Canberra| rm: tmp: No such file or directory # Product Manager - Australia | ...bin there, done that? # Ph. + 61 6 273 1200 Fax + 61 6 273 1220 eMail adamg@informix.com