Re: Informix to resell 4Js as Informix Dynamic 4GL

Exactly. US$ 200 * 10.000 = US$ 2.000.000 I can develop a lot for that. I assume I could also get a discount, but even at 50% off it would hardly be interesting. Also I have to start out at the 100 level of runtimes, so until I come to a level where I would get any significant discount I would be in problems. This type of product shouldn't carry significant runtime prices, and the development license should also be lower. Informix (or 4J) should earn their money on volume. That's where the tools bussiness and a large part of the rest of the software bussiness is at these days. They have to understand that. If not their products will not be particularly interesting. On 10 Jun 1998 13:30:51 GMT, william@carsinfo.com (William Harris) wrote: >In article <357E39F9.B2819FB2@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de>, >richard.spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de says... >>after we heard the outrageous prices. Now they say they are planning >>to restructure the pricing scheme in favor of cheaper development >>and more expensive runtime licenses. > >Gah. It's always been the runtime pricing that has killed my company's >interest in 4GL, To be sure, we wouldn't be exactly happy at paying $17K for >a development machine, but that's small potatos compared to any reasonably >large $200 per runtime seat installation. >-- >William Harris william@carsinfo.com >Check out the NAGS spam filter. http://www.nags.org > Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)