Re: NewEra Pricing

->Did anyone else notice the NewEra pricing near the end of one of the ->postings of the Informix NewEra press releases? For those that didn't ->it was: -> -> 4495 USD per client (read developer) for the development version -> 495 USD per client (read user) for the runtime -> ->I would be most interested to see some feedback from other Informix users ->on this pricing. The company that I work for is a small (10 programmers) ->software house with about 2 million lines of Informix-4GL code. We have ->patiently awaited the release of NewEra for about 3 years, seeing it as a ->way to enter the world of OOP and client-server while at the same time ->"leveraging" our investment in 4GL code. However that price will be too ->high for us. To be honest it seems to me that Informix has decided that it ->has "outgrown" our software house (which is their right), even though we ->have been responsible for several hundred thousand dollars of Informix ->run-time licence sales over the last 6 years. -> ->Richard Maurice (Richard_Maurice@equinox.gen.nz). Add to those prices the typcial uplift percentage + exchange rate variations and we're not likely to see much change from $7.5-8K AUS for the dev 't license. I assume Informix has done its homework and thinks this places the product in the right range for the competition ... but, like you, I think that's a bit out of this free-lance developer's league. regards _______________________________________________________________________ | bernie ryan * "if an eel lunges out | | bernier@dotc.gov.au * and it bites-off your snout | | canberra, australia * that's a moray..." | | fax 61-6-2734329 ph 61-18-621641 * (BC comics) | |_______________________________________________________________________|