RE: IBM Informix Database Server a Forrester Total Economic Impact Study - Link Does not work

Ho hum... Here's a key paragraph: This study illustrates the financial impact of adopting Informix database software for a distributed global retailer with 4,000 instances of Informix located throughout the globe. In conducting in-depth interviews with a large global retailer using Informix for transactional retail applications, Forrester found examples of how Informix delivered key benefits across the organization within three key benefit areas: -=- So, Forrester was paid to do this study against one customer who has 4,000 global retail locations. Hmmm I wonder who that could be. ;-) What is also interesting are the following quotes: Costs. The incremental cost to migrate to the Informix platform included the overall cost of license and annual maintenance, cost of upfront implementation and hardware, as well as the cost of ongoing support over a three year time horizon. The key issue is that with 70% of the cost being in Software licensing, YMWV because of software license discounting. Assume that you paid twice as much for the software. It could mean that you will have a longer time to value. So instead of a 2 year time to start paying off, this could take 4+ years. Hey! I'm just trying to put this in to perspective. What's interesting is that this "unnamed" retailer actually let itself be used even without a name. But what do I know? Its not like I haven't seen their discount rate (oops I had albeit 6+ years ago)... -G From: art.kagel@gmail.com Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:04:21 -0400 Subject: Re: IBM Informix Database Server a Forrester Total Economic Impact Study - Link Does not work To: chavan1@gmail.com CC: informix-list@iiug.org Chavan, This is the link I have for the Forrester report and it worked for me just this AM. If you are using a different link, let me know and I'll have IBM check it out. https://www.ibm.com/services/forms/signup.do?source=sw-infomgt&S_PKG=infmx-forrester-ap