RE: informix market share

> -----Original Message----- > From: DA Morgan [mailto:damorgan@psoug.org] > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 6:47 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: informix market share > > Everett Mills wrote: > > > Everything being equal, Informix shouldn't cost five times more > > than an equivalent Oracle set up. Maybe before you do anything else, > > you should see about how your Informix license is set up and possibly > > restructuring it. For example, we rebuilt our licenses and reduced our > > annual support cost by more than 75%. Admittedly, there were some > > transition costs, but the savings paid for it. > > > > --EEM > > If one takes the OP at his word, 500% more than an equivalent system > then a 75% savings would still make it substantially more expensive. > If this wasn't the second person to post that the cost of Informix was > substantially higher than Oracle I'd have never believed it. I might point out that before I redid my license I priced Oracle EE & SE. EE was higher than my previous Informix price and SE was a bit higher than the price I got from Kazer for IDS Workgroup. But that was over a year ago. I know IBM has been running deals to lower their prices, as has Oracle. A call to an IBM business partner is in order (rather than IBM's own sales force), I think. They are much more motivated to prove that they can deliver the same or better service and save you (sometimes lots of) money at the same time. I'm guessing that many people who bought their Informix Licenses years ago are paying per user for Enterprise Edition, where per processor would be much cheaper or paying for Enterprise Edition on single or dual processor systems, where Workgroup Edition would have everything except Enterprise Replication and cost much less (of course, if you're using HADR, you do have to pay for that separately, but it isn't expensive). --EEM > -- > Daniel A. Morgan > http://www.psoug.org > damorgan@x.washington.edu > (replace x with u to respond) sending to informix-list