Re: pricing for informix info?

From: mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie) > >In article <7q3sni$569$1@news.xmission.com>, >Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> > >> > >>Informix pricing is based on the host's size or power classification so > >>if you transfer the license to another host in the same class no >problem. > > > >Ummmm....no. IDS is licensed on a per user basis, irrespective of the > >machine you run on. > >I bought a per-user licence for IDS/LE for some development stuff and >a small project here but was told by an Intraware rep that if I wanted >to run a web/database gateway project with Informix then a per-CPU >licence would be needed. Quite correct, forgot about that. But it's $X per CPU, irrespective of whether the CPU is an Intel 386 or a MIPS R10000... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com