Re: Informix Licensing

Greetings Greg I'll try to help you clear things up. We have an office in WA and they should be able to furnish current pricing/policy information to your reseller and/or deal personally with you. If you're under maintenance, things aren't as tough as you might currently suppose. Please call sometime Monday. Regards Adam greg@gsesco.DIALix.oz.au (Greg Wake) writes: >The company I work for currently have Informix SE 4.1 and ISQL 4.1 which >is used as the underlying database for a 4GL development tool called >TODAY. >As the number of users on this system have increased, the performance >of the computer has decreased substantially and as a result, I am in >the process of gathering prices for a new box. >Currently the computer is a '486DX/50MHz running SCO Unix. I am always >one for keeping up to date with the latest technology and aquired quotes >for a Pentium 90Mhz computer system. >The directors of the company all agreed that the upgrade was required and >I had "verbal" approval for the purchase of the computer. This came >to around $16,000 (AUS). >BUT.....Changing the informix licenses from a '486 to a Pentium computer >worked out to cost nearly $30,000 (AUS). This combined with the cost >of replacing the machine has put the possiblity of a medium company >moving forward technologically, far out of reach. >The Informix dealer who we purchased the products from could not even >tell us if their was a binary change involved or not. I can only >assume that their isn't. >Can someone please tell me if this sort of cost is something that we >have to live with??? >It wouldn't be so bad paying the money if their was a REAL benefit for >doing so, BUT we don't even get advised on new products, upgrades for >our existing products and support is basically non-existent. >Does everyone who want to upgrade their computers have to fork out >$30,000 just for the priviledge of changing from a '486 to Pentium???? >If anyone can confirm OR deny that this is the case, I would appreciate >your comments. >-- >********************************************************************** >Greg Wake Geographe Software Engineering > Bunbury 6230 >greg@gsesco.DIALix.oz.au Western Australia -- # Adam Green, Federal Office, Canberra # Product Manager - Australia # Ph. + 61 6 273 1200 Fax + 61 6 273 1220 eMail adamg@informix.com