RE: Informix Licensing and Pricing Schemes.
Vinnie- You can save about $1600 by using IDS-Workgroup rather than SE. Any of IBM's business partners will get you additional discounts. I ran the numbers from IBM's website: 1 IDS WE Server $305 9 IDS WE Concurrent Session $1,539 1 ISQL Development $675 1 4GL RDS Dev. $1,125 9 4GL Runtime $3,375 ------------------------------------------- $7,019 I couldn't find the 4GL debugger, but you should have that number with your current quote. Either way, it is in your best interest to buy through a partner like Kazer, etc. Also, if you already owned software licenses, you should just need to buy support for them not replace them. --EEM > -----Original Message----- > From: BigVinnie [mailto:BigVinnieRocks@gwhizmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:32 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Informix Licensing and Pricing Schemes. > > I finally received a quote on buying new Informix software. It came > attached with sticker shock. > > Our setup is pretty simple. We have a PC loaded with Linux (Redhat > 6.0). Our software was written using RDS and SE is the DB Engine. > > When we started users were connected with Wyse terminals but now > everyone telnets to the server to execute the program. > > There is one developer, me. The software is mature enought that I > rarely do any maintenance. > > There are five employees who use the system. Occasionally there will be > more than one login to the server. Max processes is probablly about nine. > > When I first started with Informix I purchased SE, RDS and ISQL > developer licenses. We were told that licensing was for use on one > computer. When we opened another office a runtime license was purchased > for that system. Seems pretty straightforward to me. > > Now with this quote I'm told that I need a devloper license for each > product (no problem there), but that I need a runtime license for EACH > process that runs on the computer. That means nine runtimes of each. > I'm the only one that uses ISQL so that one is a no brainer, but nine > runtimes of SE and RDS? > > The quote came to a little over $10k. That's $2k per user. > > If I were running client server I could see buying runtimes for each > computer. I purposely set things up so that we did not have to. > > So, is my understanding of licensing wrong? > > Frankly, for $10k I could convert the whole system to another database. > > If any resellers would like to contact me with a quote, use vince at > totalsense.com email address. > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list
"Everett Mills" <eemills@nationalbeef.com> wrote in message news:mailman.189.1137264153.740.informix-list@iiug.org... Vinnie- You can save about $1600 by using IDS-Workgroup rather than SE. Any of IBM's business partners will get you additional discounts. I ran the numbers from IBM's website :.... Either way, it is in your best interest to buy through a partner like Kazer, etc. Get ten quotes. You'll likely get ten different prices, as very few people within or without IBM understand Informix licensing.