[discussion] Schema of Valentina server licensing

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 6/20/03 2:42, Charles Yeomans at yeomans at desuetude.com wrote:

>> 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.

And later 

> No.  Because I don't know how much the subscription fee will be in the
> future.  I've certainly seen Windows developer friends of mine get
> screwed when their $300 license jumps to $2500 + runtime fees.  So, as
> I noted in another message, prudence suggests that I any application I
> write using VServer would need to be designed so that I can change db
> engines as easily as possible -- and that may or may not be so easy to

I am sure you can NOT expect from us such steps :-)
Yes Lynn?

In any case changes in prices / license always affect only future versions.
Correct?

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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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