Re: RUMORS... true or false, you decide..

> Beginning soon, Informix will enact the following policy (this > information is second hand but fairly accurate): > 1. For major upgrades, the client will have to pay 25% of the > list price of the software. In order to receive the upgrades at > 25% of the list price, the client has to be under the 18% > maintenance agreement. .... > If this rumor is true, we as Informix users need to speak > up and find out what is going on. I just spoke to my sales representative, and she confirms that this policy is under consideration. I've just sent e-mail off to Informix explaining that we would stop paying maintenance under these terms, and I suggest to the list that others do the same: hopefully we can still persuade them that they won't come out ahead by doing this. -- Harry Bochner -- bochner@das.harvard.edu