Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unhd!unhtel!paul
From: paul@unhtel.uucp (Paul S. Sawyer)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: **** Informix Absurd Pricing Policies ****
Keywords: rip-off, shooting themselves in the foot
Message-ID: <1990Jul16.134342.20026@unhtel.uucp>
Date: 16 Jul 90 13:43:42 GMT
References: <1990Jul13.224218.25945@cbnewsm.att.com>
Organization: UNH Telecommunications and Network Services
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In article <1990Jul13.224218.25945@cbnewsm.att.com> dab@cbnewsm.att.com (david.a.berk) writes:
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>Hey informix, why are you constantly pissing people off with these self 
>defeating policies? 

Be thankful you don't have a minicomputer.  When AT&T changed a few boards
in my 3B5, making it a 3B15, the list price of I4GL went to about $24000,
double that of the 3B5 (and 10 times what I originally paid for it).  We
did not add ports or otherwise add anything but speed.  My boss was quite
reluctant to make this "upgrade", but I didn't want to rewrite all my
applications, either....

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