FW: informix market share

We are on a Gold Bundle license, and have no plans to move to DB2 (we are however moving to Oracle) :-( -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Captain Pedantic Sent: 28 November 2005 11:04 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: informix market share "rkusenet" <rkusenet@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:90tif.1379$wf2.116717@news20.bellglobal.com... > Well for other vendors it will be a loss to get informix customer for > a bargain price. For IBM this question is moot. So IBM is in a > better position to sustain that process. > For e.g. there is a Gold Bundle schema of licensing. Basically > it means that any existing customer can buy Informix license > with an assurance that it can be switched to DB2 at any time > without paying anything at the time of switch. Not only that, > the customer can run both for a limited period during the > transition. I doubt whether other vendors can match that. Actually the Gold Bundle programme has been all-but-discontinued, as it was being used by sales teams as a vehicle for dressing up Informix maintenance renewals as Gold Bundle licence sales (sales teams get remunerated on new licence sales but not maintenance renewals). Here in Blighty I have never heard of an IDS customer moving to DB2. There are plenty of Informix users on Gold Bundles though! sending to informix-list