Re: SCO/Informix on Pentium? (fwd)

On Billy's comment below... Prayers have not been that effective. If you want to move from a 486-class PC to a Pentium-class PC, you still have to pay $250 as Informix considers it a different "Hardware Class". > > > 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. > > Well, now your prayers have been answered - Version 6/7 of Informix have > user based pricing. Enjoy. > -- -- Fred Hubbard fhubbard@infosoft.com Account Manager phone: 408-366-9745 InfoSoft, Inc. fax: 408-366-1329