Re: NewEra Pricing

> Did anyone else notice the NewEra pricing near the end of one of the > postings of the Informix NewEra press releases? For those that didn't > it was: > > 4495 USD per client (read developer) for the development version > 495 USD per client (read user) for the runtime > > I would be most interested to see some feedback from other Informix > userson this pricing. The company that I work for is a small (10 > programmers)software house with about 2 million lines of Informix-4GL > code. We havepatiently awaited the release of NewEra for about 3 years, > seeing it as away to enter the world of OOP and client-server while at > the same time"leveraging" our investment in 4GL code. However that > price will be toohigh for us. To be honest it seems to me that Informix > has decided that ithas "outgrown" our software house (which is their > right), even though wehave been responsible for several hundred thousand > dollars of Informixrun-time licence sales over the last 6 years. > > Richard Maurice (Richard_Maurice@equinox.gen.nz). I asked INFORMIX this question at the INFORMIX Worldwide User Conference. Apparently their philosophy is that small users should use the new ViewPoint-Pro product as a cheap and economical nethod of going forward. They don't seem to be concerned with the small developer any more - but they might be shortsighted as today's small developer could be tomorrow's INFORMIX. Malcolm Weallans