RE: Passport Advantage questions

Posted in 2004

Colin Bull — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:31:35 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Gary Quiring wrote > Sent: 19 January 2004 20:30 > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Passport Advantage questions > > > I am looking for some experiences and insight on Informix support. I > had an engine down this weekend and our VAR does not have after hours > support which caused us some major grief. > > I would like to get support and bypass our var because of the 24x7 > bit. I called IBM and don't understand the deal. They claim a > Passport Advantage account for IDS 7.3 would be $412 dollars per year. > I asked 3 times how could that be so cheap for unlimited calls for 1 > year. What am I missing or did IBM missunderstand me? > I think you mistook the ,000 for .00 It is a ploy to force all users to 9.4. For this it will only cost 100(,000) instead of 412(,000). :-)) Colin Bull c.bull@videonetworks.com sending to informix-list