RE: Maintenance prices DOUBLED?

Tim- We had something similar when we were put into Passport Advantage. Our solution was to drop our Enterprise server licenses and replace them with Workgroup type licenses. Even with going to 10 WE servers and 80 WE users (as opposed to 40 Enterprise users), the support cost is less than half. You could purchase a new workgroup server license ($686) and 15 user licenses ($275) for about $4,800. This would include a year of support. You may be able to talk an IBM partner into giving you a discount on the licenses, since they have that trade up program going on until the end of the year. Your best bet is to call Kazer Corp. They used to be Informix's sales dept. in Kansas City, (877) 850-3208. --EEM -----Original Message----- From: Tim Ertl [mailto:tim@lmrgroup.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 9:44 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: 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 sending to informix-list