by Tony_Adrian » Tue Apr 29, 2003 9:36 pm
There are various price structures for purchasing the SQL Anywhere backend depending on the number of features.
Client Purchase - Price is 1 Server and 5 seats for about $500.00. (Call this 6 installs).
OEM - Bundle it into your solution. Cost is based on a projected quantity of installs with a two year contract. You must report the number of installs distributed quarterly. If you sell more than your contracted installs each extra install is at the contracted price. If you don't sell all of your contracted installs in the two years then they extend the contract at the same price. If Sybase comes out with a new version (V8 to V9) the price for upgrade is 25% of the contracted price per upgrade install. An "install" is any type of install - a client, a server, a CE device ... As I understand it Sybase requires one to purchase an initial 1 year support contract that is for 24/7 telephone technical support. After the first year you don't need to renew. The reponse time is typically 30 minutes but they promise 4 hours. The support contract is pretty steep at $4,000.00.
The SQL Anywhere product has two way, row level replication/synchronization. The end user only receives the data that he or she is entitled to. This can occur via TCP or via an eMail scheme. The iAnywhere Studio version I received has a data modeling application built that starts by creating a CDM (Conceptual Data Model). In the CDM you create column names, relationships, keys, ... After you have completed this you create a Physical Data Model (PDM) whereby the tables are created with the desired column types, restraints, etc... The tables can contain triggers and stored procedures. The SQL Anywhere product is supposed to be able to replicate with almost any other backend such as MS SQL, Oracle, ... It also has built in encryption of both the tables and a sort of VPN. I think the VPN encryption as well as the CE install raise the price of the OEM contract agreement.
If I find out anything else I'll post it here.
Tony Adrian RN
Nursing Data Inc.
A Medicare Approved Software Billing Vendor
Database/Document Management for the Health Care Industry
Servoy, Sybase, Lotus Domino/Notes
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