NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/database/informix/2860

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From: [e-mail] (Paul Thomas Mahoney)
Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
Subject: Re: mail problem
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Date: 3 Jan 93 11:05:31 GMT
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Organization: X-Act Solutions Limited
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My original post was driven by shock.

There I had been, at an Informix User conference, listening to Malcolm
Padina (UK Managing Director) telling us that they had increased sales,
a VERY healthy bank balance, and even better products in the pipeline...

However a price increase was announced, it would be in the region of 10%
to 15%. This was only annoying since it was an increase higher than inflation
and we are in recession...

Then my distributor sends me the new price list. No matter how hard I try I
cannot make 113% look like 15%! Now this, I agree is not across the board.
The low end machines that are having far higher price increases with respect
to high end machines. When I last asked the percentage of users running on
486 PC's the answer given was about 20%...

It seems certain that I'm not the ony VAR in a state of shock.
--
Paul Mahoney, X-Act Solutions Limited
smail: 20 Shipley Lane, Cooden, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN39 3SR
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