[discussion] Schema of Valentina server licensing

[Charles Yeomans]

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 07:24 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> on 6/20/03 0:56, Charles Yeomans at yeomans at desuetude.com wrote:
>>>
>>
>> As I see it, the point of a subscription model is to decouple the
>> revenue stream from the development cycle.  And I can see that such a
>> plan has some advantages for us as well as Paradigma.  But a
>> time-limited subscription model asks us to assume all of the risk.  In
>> short, I wouldn't purchase a license that time-limited my ability to
>> sell software.
>
> Charles,
>
> All depends on amount, correct?
>
> If this annual price will be $1, but you make $1000
> You still will not buy it ?  :-))
>
> Lynn, I think it is hard for people to see full picture.
>
> Charles, I already have told in prev letter.
>
> 1) VDN membership need buy only developers who want develop 
> application with
> embedded server.
>
> Btw, Please look on other alternatives. If you develop client-server 
> app
> with say MS SQL Server then EACH your customer need pay to Microsoft 
> (not to
> you!) full price for SQL Server. It is $8000 it seems or so.
> MySQL will require from you $155-$450 for each copy.
> OpenBase it seems $40 per copy.
>
>
> When you become VDN member, you get 5 connection server for FREE.
> You can sale any number of copies of your app !!!
> Sounds good?
>
> Actually ONLY this fact should make VDN developers happy.
> So if you will need pay next year $300 it still looks to be a
> big problem ???
>
> But look also what other good and benefits you get as VDN member!!!
>
>
> 2) You get 3(!!!) Valentina Server for each platform for your internal 
> needs
> and tests.
>         3 Servers at $300 = $900  (already more than you have pay.)
>
>
> 3) you get license of V4RB/V4MD or any other single user product.
>         another $300 value.
>
>
> 4) you get 10 connections for resale.
>
> 5) you get 20% discount to resale normal Valentina server.
>
> 6) FREE support and priority bug fix.
>     compare to $1500 for mySQL support.
>
>
> So you still think that $300 per year is a
> bad deal for all these benefits?
>

Except for what you've told us recently, we don't know what the 
benefits are. Certainly what you say sounds good.  But, who is to say 
that these benefits won't change in the future?  So what I would need 
to do is to factor my application so that I can change out VServer for 
another embedded client-server database, in case the subscription deal 
does change.  That's the hidden cost of buying into such a subscription.

Charles Yeomans