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- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!aburt
- From: aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt)
- Subject: Re: mail problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.174346.11803@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1i4h03INN9ga@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 17:43:46 GMT
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- In <1i4h03INN9ga@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> widener!uunet!uunet!microc!eric@emory.mathcs.emory.edu writes:
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- >>From: uunet!xact.demon.co.uk!ptm (Paul Thomas Mahoney)
- >>I DO NOT WORK FOR INFORMIX! I'm just a VAR...
- >>My software runs on 468 "Class C" machines which can support > 25 people.
- >>Informix are now to have "# of user" prices breaks on Class C machines.
- >>As a result the price hike for me is not 10%... IT'S OVER 100%!!!!
- >>I am not very happy about this...
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- >Why? You're gonna get more money selling a C17+ user license!
- >Aren't you a VAR?
- >I DO NOT WORK FOR INFORMIX! I'm just a Distributor...
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- I suspect his complaint is that he has to raise his price. I.e., he
- is *forced* to raise his price. You as distributor may not care, but
- you ought to know the difference between you and a V*ADDED*R -- one
- of my clients is a VAR, and while they do make money off selling informix
- if the sell a copy of their prodouct, it is just that much harder to
- sell their product because they are *forced* to raise the overall price.
-
- But, if y'all have been reading my prior posts, you know where I stand
- on Informix's pricing: It's way the hell out there for what you get
- compared to most software.
- --
-
- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu
-
- "But if he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaargh", he'd just say it."
-