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From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailtowner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Colin Bull

Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 9:20 PM

To: informix-list@iiug.org

Subject: RE: Maintenance prices DOUBLED?





Tim Ertl

>

> We just got socked by a HUGE increase in Maintenance. Has anyone else?

>

> 12/2001 we had $5k

> 12/2002 we had $6k

> 12/2003 we have $10,600 (after bartering down from $11,056)

>

> This is bad news for me since some of our management group

> seems to love

> the idea of M/S SQL server.

>

> Anybody find a better way to get a good price on this. We are a small

> company with only a dozen Informix users. Help!

>



[Colin wrote]

>

>We were forced to upgrade to 9.4 because of the way IBM priced our support.





Same here, we will be upgrading to 9.4 early in 2004 - somewhere in January probably




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