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- From: bernard@cpio1.fr.mugnet.org (Bernard Fouche)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Seeking EMPRESS distributor or alternative solution
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.133405.9560@cpio1.fr.mugnet.org>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 13:34:05 GMT
- Sender: bernard@cpio1.fr.mugnet.org (Bernard Fouche)
- Organization: CPIO S.A.
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- My company is using the EMPRESS RDBMS for 3 years. Technically, we are
- rather happy with it. Unfortunately, we are suffering from the
- commercial policy of the French distributor :
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- 1) the price of the runtime was multiplied by 3 in 2 years (!). So our
- price policy (our products are based on EMPRESS) can not continue
- any more the way it is now.
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- 2) It seems impossible to make them understand than a $4000 (!)
- difference (end user prices) between a 386 and 486 version is stupid
- in 1992: the price difference between two systems of this kind can be
- of $500 and the user will understand to pay $500 more to a computer
- manufacturer to have a quicker system with a different processor.
- However, having to pay $4000 more to EMPRESS to use the same binary
- distribution coming from the same tape now make the gap between a 386
- and a 486, a $4500 jump! Anyway, who now buy a 386 to run a RDBMS ???
-
- I can't stand this short term strategy ("let's pump money as much as
- we can and those who do not like the way we do it can go to hell").
-
- So I'm desperately seeking a foreign (i.e.: non-French!) EMPRESS
- distributor with a better understanding of the market to solve these
- problems or a product conceptually near from EMPRESS (especially the C
- interface as we do not use the 4GL at all). We don't need any technical
- support as we will change of version only to have some EMPRESS bugs
- corrected and we know well the product.
-
- I hope that Microsoft, Borland and others will soon come to this market
- to shake it a bit.
-
- Any hint or help welcome !
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- Bernard Fouche VOX : +(33) (1) 48.04.56.30 FAX : (33) (1) 48.04.98.95
- Email : bernard@cpio1.fr.mugnet.org
- Postal Mail : CPIO S.A., 13-15 Rue de la Verrerie, 75004 Paris, France
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