I have been reading
through the posts in the last few days in regards to the MySAPDB
"rebranding".
I am in a different position than most since I am not running
SAPDB
yet, but I have been
investigating (for about a year) the prospects of porting
my Informix/ESQL
applications to SAPDB. The main draw to SAPDB
was it's ESQL
support and LGPL. For those in mid-range "vertical" markets
know
that there
customer's are extremely price sensitive and moving to a
traditional
DB like Oracle,
MSSQL, etc would be cost prohibitive. Informix SE is
attractively
priced, but will
become an orphaned step-child in the future as a result of
the
IBM Informix
buyout.
I was just ready to
lean on the management to give me the resources to begin
the port to SAPDB.
Now, unless
the client libs (ESQL included) are free, I can't see
how I can convince
management to bite.
Just my 2 cents, but
I don't see what will make MySAPDB gain a larger share of
the
DB market by
changing it's licensing structure. We use Red Hat in some of our products
under
GPL and the money
they are making from us is the support NOT the licensing
arena.
As a small
development group we can't afford OS heavyweights on staff and
the
same is true of
Informix, we pay them a pretty penny for support. I HAD
envisioned
using SAPDB support
in the same manner, however it's clear the business model
for SAPDB has
changed...
Tim Nelson
