Maintenance prices DOUBLED?
We just got socked by a HUGE increase in Maintenance. Has anyone else? 12/2001 we had $5k 12/2002 we had $6k 12/2003 we have $10,600 (after bartering down from $11,056) This is bad news for me since some of our management group seems to love the idea of M/S SQL server. Anybody find a better way to get a good price on this. We are a small company with only a dozen Informix users. Help! Tim Ertl Vice President MIS GTL, Incorporated/Link to Life 413-442-9000 ext. 6211 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY This document may contain confidential information belonging to the sender which is legally and/or medically privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or taking of any action on this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this document in error, please notify us by telephone to arrange for the return of any documents to us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- sending to informix-list
Could you list all individual items (product, number of users, runtime/dev, workgroup/enterprise for the engine)? Do you get support from IBM or through a reseller? Michael Tim Ertl wrote: > We just got socked by a HUGE increase in Maintenance. Has anyone else? > > 12/2001 we had $5k > 12/2002 we had $6k > 12/2003 we have $10,600 (after bartering down from $11,056) > > This is bad news for me since some of our management group seems to love > the idea of M/S SQL server. > > Anybody find a better way to get a good price on this. We are a small > company with only a dozen Informix users. Help! > > Tim Ertl > > Vice President MIS > > GTL, Incorporated/Link to Life > > 413-442-9000 ext. 6211 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY > This document may contain confidential information belonging to the > sender which is legally and/or medically privileged. This information is > intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If > you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > disclosure, copying, distribution, or taking of any action on this > information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this document > in error, please notify us by telephone to arrange for the return of any > documents to us. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > > > > > sending to informix-list
Very odd, the Official UK prices are either static or have come down Whats the product(s) Tim Ertl wrote: > > We just got socked by a HUGE increase in Maintenance. Has anyone else? > > 12/2001 we had $5k > 12/2002 we had $6k > 12/2003 we have $10,600 (after bartering down from $11,056) > > This is bad news for me since some of our management group seems to love > the idea of M/S SQL server. > > Anybody find a better way to get a good price on this. We are a small > company with only a dozen Informix users. Help! > -- Paul Watson # Oninit Ltd # Growing old is mandatory Tel: +44 1436 672201 # Growing up is optional Fax: +44 1436 678693 # Mob: +44 7818 003457 # www.oninit.com #
Tim Ertl wrote: > We just got socked by a HUGE increase in Maintenance. Has anyone else? No, and this is coming from a UK-perspective, I understand that IBM are tightening up on who has workgroup and enterprise editions and what they pay for support. I don't think the price has changed much though. > This is bad news for me since some of our management group seems to love > the idea of M/S SQL server. We have a few SQL Server implementations and the replication is a nightmare when compared with HDR. Schema changes can be very problematic - so bad that we're migrating some of the larger systems to Informix. > Anybody find a better way to get a good price on this. We are a small > company with only a dozen Informix users. Help! Make sure you use Workgroup edition? Ben.
Interestingly I was told by IBM today that Workgroup no longer exists Ben Thompson wrote: > > Tim Ertl wrote: > > > We just got socked by a HUGE increase in Maintenance. Has anyone else? > > No, and this is coming from a UK-perspective, I understand that IBM are > tightening up on who has workgroup and enterprise editions and what they > pay for support. I don't think the price has changed much though. > > > This is bad news for me since some of our management group seems to love > > the idea of M/S SQL server. > > We have a few SQL Server implementations and the replication is a > nightmare when compared with HDR. Schema changes can be very problematic > - so bad that we're migrating some of the larger systems to Informix. > > > Anybody find a better way to get a good price on this. We are a small > > company with only a dozen Informix users. Help! > > Make sure you use Workgroup edition? > > Ben. -- Paul Watson # Oninit Ltd # Growing old is mandatory Tel: +44 1436 672201 # Growing up is optional Fax: +44 1436 678693 # Mob: +44 7818 003457 # www.oninit.com #