HI Guys,

I heard that IBM is going to stop support for IDS-7.31 by DEC 2009.we have al most 45+ production servers and more than 100 dev servers.This is going to be crazy situation for all clients who are using 7.31x.While Upgrading is the option,still cost remains high............

There was a time, in a land far far away, when upgrade from v7 to v9 was for free. So, everybody had chance to migrate to v9 and v9 from licensing perspective is treated the same as v10 and v11.
If you have so much installations, I'm quite sure there's way to negotiate for better price deal. You can contact me by e-mail and present me your situation.