On Dec 26, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Dana Smith wrote:
I presently have a FMPro 6 solution with 5 users and am trying to figure out how much it would cost to upgrade the software to version 9 Server and have the ability to have 30-35 users, some of who would require editing privileges and some who would only require browsing privileges. Short of buying the server license and 35 new versions of FileMaker Pro, does anyone have any suggestions that would help make this any less expensive?
They used to have specials where you buy 10 and get server free. Their best deal is site licensing, but I think the threshold is 50 (employees or computers, your choice) seats. Seems like that was around $8000 to get in (for 60 in our case), then a yearly fee of $2600 (we're at 80 employees now, so like $33 per head) to keep them shipping you all the updates. With a site license (ours is based on employees, whether they use computers or not), we can run anything filemaker makes, as many times as we want: we could run server advanced on every desktop if we wanted to...
geoff
