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- From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: WingZ (Informix) policy disappointment
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.184829.17899@investor.pgh.pa.us>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 18:48:29 GMT
- References: <1992Aug10.195213.12192@csus.edu>
- Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
- Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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- In article <1992Aug10.195213.12192@csus.edu> hodges@huckleberry.sfsu.edu writes:
- >I had a rude awakening today. I had not received any notification from
- >Informix regarding new releases of WingZ, and having been using the
- >product for quite some time now thought that I should be hearing
- >*something*. I called them up and found that their policy is to only
- >notify those who have purchased support agreements of new upgrades, and
- >that all others must purchase a new application.
- >
- They (used to?) do the same thing with their DB. If you don't have
- support you have the choice of buying support and paying for each upgrade
- between then and now or of just buying the new release outright. The
- idea of paying for support and then having to pay for upgrades always
- lacked appeal for me so we never did. We never bought the upgrades from
- them either. We found we could upgrade through our vendor cheaper. Of
- course our vendor stopped making the particular machine we use and all
- support stopped pretty much the next day from them and Informix.
- --
- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us 412-471-5320
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