Re: SCO/Informix on Pentium?

: >>Simon Bunce <simonb@misslink.demon.co.uk> wrote: : >>>We have a couple of Compaq machines with 486/66 processors running Informix : >>>On-Line v5.00.UD5 on SCO 3.2v4.2. : >>>Will this software install and run without problems on Pentium machines? : >jay@ucfc.mhs.compuserve.com (Jay Aymond) writes: : >>Yes, it will run just fine --- but you should upgrade your Informix licenses to the Intel Pentium : >>Platform to reamin legal. : rshwake@rsxtech.com (Raymond Shwake) wrote: : > Oh, give us a break. This comment simply represents the interests of : >those vendors pushing tier-based pricing. Sadly, most of the DBMS vendors are : >wedded to this licensing model. It says, in effect, that they want/deserve : >more of your money if you choose, and can afford, to run their application on : >a higher performing processor (or simply a more expensive box) at any given : >user level. : > I and my organization have for years argued with the likes of Informix : >and Oracle for *user* based licensing. It should be, after all, *none of : >their business* what processor I choose to use for any given number of users, : >any more than they should look at the memory, or disk controller. Apropos, : >some years ago we got into an argument with Informix which wanted some $20,000 : >more to run their product on one HP model over another, the only difference : >between those models being the number of *expansion slots*. We told them to : >"take a walk". Jay Aymond (jay@ucfc.mhs.compuserve.com) wrote: : I do not repesent a RDBMS vendor --- I was only making a statement regarding the license aggreement : as stated by Informix. : As far as tier-based pricing, on every platform I have ever worked on --- from mini-computers to : mainframes, the price of the software has be related to the size of the box : that it ran on. I agree with Raymond. We had the same problem with Informix and it didn't help that upper management at my company is anti-UNIX. They would call Informix, and Oracle the "UNIX boys", ie. "those UNIX boys just don't get it." After about a year this project was switched to NT with SqlServer and MS could care less about what size box you run on, just how many clients. I sometimes am amased out how easy companies make it for Microsoft!