Informix Roundup: 30 May
http://obotheclown.blogspot.com/2009/05/informix-roundup-30-may-2009.html The SQSL edition. :o) -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.
"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message news:mailman.728.1243757718.1831.informix-list@iiug.org... > http://obotheclown.blogspot.com/2009/05/informix-roundup-30-may-2009.html > > The SQSL edition. :o) Quite dull. But, your 27th May Round-Up highlighted this article, http://www.informix-zone.com/node/758, in The Informix Zone by Eric Herber, about Informix's relentless drift towards mimicking Oracle's pricing model, and charging extra for the sexiest stuff, like Compression and SDS. I couldn't agree with this article more: we could at least argue before that, although Informix Enterprise Edition (EE) is more expensive than Oracle Enterprise, at least it included everything. Now, like Oracle, many features are add-ons ... but needless to say basic IDS EE remains more expensive than Oracle! Selected points from Eric's article: >> "The point I want to make is that IBM's license politics is getting more >> and more similar to the hardest competitor:" Actually my experience is that SQL Server is the real competition, but I seem to be in a minority on this. >> "This is not only annoying from a financial point of view. IBM's license >> politics hurts the spreading of the excellent IDS technology. Take a look >> at the wonderful IDS MACH11 technology. This is perfectly suited to >> create highly available and scalable database clusters. But even >> customers using IDS EE have to pay an extra fee if they want to deploy >> SDS nodes. There are probably a few large customers that are willing to >> spend the extra money. My guess is that the number of those customers is >> not higher than 5% of the total IDS EE customer base. So while making >> money at 5% of the IDS EE customer base, IBM prohibits the spreading of >> this technology at 95% of the IDS EE customer base". Eric points out that few adopters will result in few customer references and case studies. A more subtle point is that the technology itself will also be harmed by the low take-up. If only a handful of customers use a particular technology the rate at which early adopters' experience irons out bugs in early releases will be much slower. Most early releases of IDS and any other software have bugs that no amount of laboratory testing by the vendor will uncover, and the early-adopter filter is a vital QA tool. If only 4 sites in the world can afford to use, say, compression, that filter is going to be pretty coarse. >> Ooh wait, I forgot that IBM doesn't want to waste the earned IDS money in >> a meaningless advertising campaign :-) Ouch! Good point though!
On May 31, 4:09 am, "Captain Pedantic" <theharlequi...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Eric points out that few adopters will result in few customer references and > case studies. A more subtle point is that the technology itself will also > be harmed by the low take-up. If only a handful of customers use a > particular technology the rate at which early adopters' experience irons out > bugs in early releases will be much slower. Most early releases of IDS and > any other software have bugs that no amount of laboratory testing by the > vendor will uncover, and the early-adopter filter is a vital QA tool. If > only 4 sites in the world can afford to use, say, compression, that filter > is going to be pretty coarse. > > >> Ooh wait, I forgot that IBM doesn't want to waste the earned IDS money in > >> a meaningless advertising campaign :-) > > Ouch! Good point though! Getting a case study or a customer reference from an Informix customer? Shirley you jest! The interesting thing is that you will get more than *4* customers using IDS w compression. But those customers are the ones who get J level discount and beat up their sales reps to get even more of a percentage off their normal discounts. Of course those customers are the same customers that don't want to become reference customers so we'll never know much about who does what.
Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > Getting a case study or a customer reference from an Informix > customer? > Shirley you jest! http://www.informix-zone.com/node/748 from here: http://obotheclown.blogspot.com/2009/05/informix-roundup-27-may-2009.html Or did you mean some other kind of case study? -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.