We have customers like that, coming of the back of multi-year deal and
now renewing support and are not happy that it is has gone up, but 200%
seems a bit steep :-)


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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Rowell [mailto:erowell@gmail.com]
Posted At: 07 August 2006 07:38
Posted To: comp.databases.informix
Conversation: Informix business grew by double digits in 2006 (Q1+Q2)
Subject: Re: Informix business grew by double digits in 2006 (Q1+Q2)


Could the increase be because of companies like mine that are coming off
of legacy contracts and are now having to pay a price more then 200%
what we have paid in the past? Two ways to get to this number; Increase
sales or price...

"IDS license revenue grew by double digits in the first half of 2006"

I still think informix is a great product...

We are still trying to free the application from the database server
here. In time it will happen.

Eric B. Rowell


>Looks like our dear ol Informix is alive and kicking well. Per IBM
site, license >revenue grew by double digits in 2006 (Q1+Q2).
>
>http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks...erman/20060802
>
>"The rise of Informix
>The Q2 numbers are in and Informix Dynamic Server experienced another
>large increase in revenue to build on the growth of Q1. As usual the
>details are not released publicly but I am officially allowed to say,
and I quote..
>
>IDS license revenue grew by double digits in the first half of 2006"

"Eric Rowell" <erowell@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.159.1154954007.20706.informix-list@iiug.org...
> Could the increase be because of companies like mine that are coming
> off of legacy contracts and are now having to pay a price more then
> 200% what we have paid in the past? Two ways to get to this number;
> Increase sales or price...

It doesn't seem likely, since IBM classes licence revenue completely
separately from maintenance revenue, which is what you typically sign a
multi-year deal for.

Thank you for the clarification I missed that. I know that I was told
there was a really BIG networking company now using Informix so we
hope for the best...

On 8/7/06, Neil Truby <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote:
> "Eric Rowell" <erowell@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.159.1154954007.20706.informix-list@iiug.org...
> > Could the increase be because of companies like mine that are coming
> > off of legacy contracts and are now having to pay a price more then
> > 200% what we have paid in the past? Two ways to get to this number;
> > Increase sales or price...
>
> It doesn't seem likely, since IBM classes licence revenue completely
> separately from maintenance revenue, which is what you typically sign a
> multi-year deal for.
>
>
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>> "Christine Normile" <christine@myinform-me.com> wrote in message
>> news:mailman.150.1154802853.20706.informix-list@iiug.org...
I do not see PVU pricing as a Godsend for IDS. Unfortunately, PVU pricing
only benefits the product if companies run a dedicated database server
either on a stand-alone box or as a partition within a server. Running a
standalone server is not practical for >80% of dataserver needs due to the
capacity of machines today, especially vis-a-vis IDS's very elegant design.
Running as a partition places severe limits on the platforms that can be
used...to qualify for sub-capacity pricing (required for partitioned
systems), a customer must also install IBM Tivoli license manager (ITLM)
and provide periodic reports to ensure compliance.

IBM's sub-capacity licensing, as you call it, is aleady way behind the times
compared to Oracle.
Regards PVU - it's been out for 10 days now and I've already seen it cause
enormous confusion even with IBM sales specialists. It's a typically
over-complex response from IBM to a situation which cries out for
clarification and simplicity.