Price competitive ?

Dear All : I read the news about Oracle's cut down their price for Oracle 10i to compete with MS in the small/medium business database market. Informix , as usual , is our best choice to recommand to our customer(we are a system integretion company), but the cost is always the main issue that they want SQL server instead of IDS. My question is : Is there some kind of "standard version" or "entry level version" of IDS which price is really competitive ? I know IBM offers Informix Online Extend 5.2 in a very low price , but what about IDS ? Ken

"Ken Hu" <kenhu1970@yahoo.com.tw> wrote in message news:4021A6F7.8080604@yahoo.com.tw... > Dear All : > > Informix , as usual , is our best choice to recommand to our customer(we > are a system integretion company), but the cost is always the main issue > that they want SQL server instead of IDS. > > My question is : Is there some kind of "standard version" or "entry > level version" of IDS which price is really competitive ? I know IBM > offers Informix Online Extend 5.2 in a very low price , but what about IDS ? "Well, not exactly Ken, but we *do* have an entry-level version of another member of the DB2 Information Management Software brand, called DB2 Express, that *is* attractively 'priced to go' ..."

Ken Hu wrote: > Dear All : > > I read the news about Oracle's cut down their price for Oracle 10i to > compete with MS in the small/medium business database market. > > Informix , as usual , is our best choice to recommand to our customer(we > are a system integretion company), but the cost is always the main issue > that they want SQL server instead of IDS. > > My question is : Is there some kind of "standard version" or "entry > level version" of IDS which price is really competitive ? I know IBM > offers Informix Online Extend 5.2 in a very low price , but what about IDS > ? IDS Workgroup Edition? -- "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche