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Re: Licensing costs question
2006-03-23 09:55:38
We are agnostic when it comes to a particular
product so we don't care if it's SQL vs Oracle or DB2 vs. all of the others.
We have seen these rumors of large price increases before
and it has been our experience that they are just that - rumors.
I have never personally seen a 10 fold increase in the 9 years I
have been dealing with this.
Just for what it's worth.
Roger Deschner <rogerd AT UIC DOT EDU>
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Sometimes competitors start these kinds of rumors
on purpose...
I mean, if you had an inferior product, it would be a logical strategy
to start a rumor that the best product's price was about to be increased
10 fold. Spread this rumor well enough, and you could get some sales.
Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago
rogerd AT uic DOT edu
====== "Never make policy decisions based on a newspaper article."
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=== --Rep. Porter Goss (R,FL), Chairman, House Intelligence Committee ==
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Bob Booth - UIUC wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:15:54PM -0800, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:
>> I had a very disturbing conversation with someone in where I was
told TSM
>> licensing could increase 10 fold. Is IBM hurting for money? Has
anyone else
>> heard this nonsense? I could easily see us moving to something
else if that
>> was the case.
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>I just received a PPA quote from IBM that was quite reasonable. My
vendor
>has not heard any such thing, and I beleive that raising prices 10
fold
>from current list would totally damage IBM's market share (or potential).
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>just my .02.
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>bob
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