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From: "Don" <dr2@cssas400.com> > Nathan, would you pay $110,000 for a system you were > only allowed to use 7.5% of!? That would be pretty silly. It seems to me that the CRUX of the problem is that IBM markets "Interactive Features" as hardware. Then IBM comes up with a gimmick like Interactive CPW to define the hardware capacity. Then IBM comes up with something resembling a virus (CFINT) to control access to that capacity. It's out of sync with peoples expectations of hardware. On the other hand, when people license Client Access (for example) for 1000 users, they expect to pay more than when they license Client Access for only one user. In my opinion, IBM ought to sell Interactive Features as software. If 7.5% of my users needed one set of software features, and 92.5% needed another set of software features, and both sets of user had 100% access to the hardware, and TCO was comparable to the competition, then I might buy it. Nathan M. Andelin www.relational-data.com
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