Re: informix market share

Everett Mills wrote: > Everything being equal, Informix shouldn't cost five times more > than an equivalent Oracle set up. Maybe before you do anything else, > you should see about how your Informix license is set up and possibly > restructuring it. For example, we rebuilt our licenses and reduced our > annual support cost by more than 75%. Admittedly, there were some > transition costs, but the savings paid for it. > > --EEM If one takes the OP at his word, 500% more than an equivalent system then a 75% savings would still make it substantially more expensive. If this wasn't the second person to post that the cost of Informix was substantially higher than Oracle I'd have never believed it. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)