Re: NT DSA 7.22 $1,500/seat? For Real?

Victor Tan wrote: > > I just got off the phone with an Informix reseller and she > claimed that the list price for Online 7.22 DSA for Windows > NT is $1,500 per seat. Is that correct? That seems very > high for a NT based RDBMS. I thought that the whole idea > was that with NT coming up and up for departmental level > database servers that Informix was being forced to charge > lower prices as the competition was Microsoft SQL Server and > Sybase SQL Anywhere etc... > > No, don't ask me why NT. I'm not going to get into it. > Yes, we already have lots of UNIX boxes so I know about > UNIX. > > Thanks. I really need to confirm this. Yes, that sounds about right. DSA for NT is the same price as for UNIX, which is a good incentive to go UNIX, don't you think? ;-) Oh, you didn't want to get into that did you? :-) There's also a minimum of about 10 seats per CPU. :-( Cheers, -- Mark. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mark D. Stock - The West Solutions Group http://www.west.co.za | | The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org | |mailto:marks@west.co.za +-----------------------------------------+ |Tel: +27 11 803 2151 |If it doesn't work, force it! | |Fax: +27 11 803 2189 |If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway!| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Well, that's how I code anyway! | +------------------------+-----------------------------------------+