Re: informix market share

"rkusenet" <rkusenet_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:90tif.1379$wf2.116717_at_news20.bellglobal.com...

> Well for other vendors it will be a loss to get informix customer for
> a bargain price. For IBM this question is moot. So IBM is in a
> better position to sustain that process.
> For e.g. there is a Gold Bundle schema of licensing. Basically
> it means that any existing customer can buy Informix license
> with an assurance that it can be switched to DB2 at any time
> without paying anything at the time of switch. Not only that,
> the customer can run both for a limited period during the
> transition. I doubt whether other vendors can match that.

Actually the Gold Bundle programme has been all-but-discontinued, as it was being used by sales teams as a vehicle for dressing up Informix maintenance renewals as Gold Bundle licence sales (sales teams get remunerated on new licence sales but not maintenance renewals). Here in Blighty I have never heard of an IDS customer moving to DB2. There are plenty of Informix users on Gold Bundles though! Received on Mon Nov 28 2005 - 03:03:44 CST