Re: Informix 7.1 Pricing

Naomi Walker (naomi@anasazi.com) wrote: : I don't want this to be a slamming ground for Informix, but i'm interested : in your comments. : We are a large Informix shop, including being a VAR for their products. : While we are probably fairly small in Informix' eyes, we have given them : plenty of money over the years. We are currently running 4.1 Online and : a pile of their other tools on several machines (mostly Pyramid : hardware). Currently, we are looking at getting 7.1 Online in house, : and are stunned and hugely affected their new pricing structure. : My question to you all is how does the new user based pricing affect you, : and what comments do you have on the issue. Informix claims the majority : of people out their are happy as clams. To be fair, I am aware that Oracle : has a similar pricing structure. : Email responses are fine for me, since i'm more just curious, than wanting : to flame Informix, but whatever you'd like to share is fine with me. : Thanks, : Naomi I don't know exactly what the specifics are, but I was told but my manager that with the new informix pricing structure, our cost went from a cost of about $6,000 to over $100,000. We are therefore going to have to re-do a lot of our software (or purchase something else) in order to make our product to be able to be purchased. Don