Re: SCO/Informix on Pentium?

jay@ucfc.mhs.compuserve.com (Jay Aymond) writes: >Simon Bunce <simonb@misslink.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>We have a couple of Compaq machines with 486/66 processors running Informix >>On-Line v5.00.UD5 on SCO 3.2v4.2. >>Will this software install and run without problems on Pentium machines? >Yes, it will run just fine --- but you should upgrade your Informix licenses to the Intel Pentium >Platform to reamin legal. Oh, give us a break. This comment simply represents the interests of those vendors pushing tier-based pricing. Sadly, most of the DBMS vendors are wedded to this licensing model. It says, in effect, that they want/deserve more of your money if you choose, and can afford, to run their application on a higher performing processor (or simply a more expensive box) at any given user level. I and my organization have for years argued with the likes of Informix and Oracle for *user* based licensing. It should be, after all, *none of their business* what processor I choose to use for any given number of users, any more than they should look at the memory, or disk controller. Apropos, some years ago we got into an argument with Informix which wanted some $20,000 more to run their product on one HP model over another, the only difference between those models being the number of *expansion slots*. We told them to "take a walk".