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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.
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