Re: IDS Feature Request List (including potential new requests).
License is based on user login, NOT the number of server connections for a user, also you only need a single user devel license. This has been like this in Australia since I started using Informix SE and 4GL devel back in 1984. So unless IBM have changed things, I would think your quote is wrong. Rod. ----- Original Message ----- From: "BigVinnie" <BigVinnieRocks@gwhizmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 4:31 AM Subject: Informix Licensing and Pricing Schemes. > I finally received a quote on buying new Informix software. It came > attached with sticker shock. > > Our setup is pretty simple. We have a PC loaded with Linux (Redhat > 6.0). Our software was written using RDS and SE is the DB Engine. > > When we started users were connected with Wyse terminals but now > everyone telnets to the server to execute the program. > > There is one developer, me. The software is mature enought that I > rarely do any maintenance. > > There are five employees who use the system. Occasionally there will be > more than one login to the server. Max processes is probablly about nine. > > When I first started with Informix I purchased SE, RDS and ISQL > developer licenses. We were told that licensing was for use on one > computer. When we opened another office a runtime license was purchased > for that system. Seems pretty straightforward to me. > > Now with this quote I'm told that I need a devloper license for each > product (no problem there), but that I need a runtime license for EACH > process that runs on the computer. That means nine runtimes of each. > I'm the only one that uses ISQL so that one is a no brainer, but nine > runtimes of SE and RDS? > > The quote came to a little over $10k. That's $2k per user. > > If I were running client server I could see buying runtimes for each > computer. I purposely set things up so that we did not have to. > > So, is my understanding of licensing wrong? > > Frankly, for $10k I could convert the whole system to another database. > > If any resellers would like to contact me with a quote, use vince at > totalsense.com email address. > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >
Rodney Sheppard said: > > So unless IBM have changed things, I would think your quote is wrong. IBM has changed things. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com
Rodney Sheppard wrote: > So unless IBM have changed things, I would think your quote is wrong. > > Rod. You just answered your own question. IBM got what it wanted from Informix ... a customer list and access to better technology than its own. The only thing left to do is extract as many dollars as possible from the legacy customers before setting them adrift (if they don't see the light and move to DB2). -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)