RE: Maintenance prices DOUBLED?

The Workgroup edition was originally for small customer sites and ran also on NT. It includes pretty much all the features of Enterprise but the marketing behind it is different and so is the price tag. I don't know of any limitations within the product since I used both and could run the same instance with the same amount of users on each. I believe it is more a marketing thing for smaller customer sites. I don't know how Informix used to check on its usage. Hoping this helps! Andr' >From: St'phane Gadoury <stephane.gadoury@transat.com> >To: "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com>, <informix-list@iiug.org> >Subject: RE: Maintenance prices DOUBLED? >Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:15:11 -0500 > >Hi list, > >Can someone clarify what is exactly the difference between Workgroup & >Enterprise ? > >We also had a HUGE increase because IBM is going cpu based instead of >users. >We have a total of 72 cpu...imagine the price tag !!!! > >Thks ! > >-----Message d'origine----- >De : owner-informix-list@iiug.org >[mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]De la part de Obnoxio The Clown >Envoy' : 23 d'cembre, 2003 15:44 >' : informix-list@iiug.org >Objet : Re: Maintenance prices DOUBLED? > > >Paul Watson wrote: > > > Interestingly I was told by IBM today that Workgroup no longer exists > >I am "sceptical" about this assertion. > > > Ben Thompson wrote: > >> > >> Tim Ertl wrote: > >> > >> > We just got socked by a HUGE increase in Maintenance. Has anyone >else? > >> > >> No, and this is coming from a UK-perspective, I understand that IBM are > >> tightening up on who has workgroup and enterprise editions and what >they > >> pay for support. I don't think the price has changed much though. > >> > >> > This is bad news for me since some of our management group seems to > >> > love the idea of M/S SQL server. > >> > >> We have a few SQL Server implementations and the replication is a > >> nightmare when compared with HDR. Schema changes can be very >problematic > >> - so bad that we're migrating some of the larger systems to Informix. > >> > >> > Anybody find a better way to get a good price on this. We are a small > >> > company with only a dozen Informix users. Help! > >> > >> Make sure you use Workgroup edition? > >-- >"C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" >- Coluche > >sending to informix-list _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 sending to informix-list