Charles, I preformed a cost comparison/analysis with TopQuadrant's products as one of the sets of solutions. One of the pros with the TopQuadrant suite is that you actually purchase and own the software after the term of your license, just without version updates after your maintenence period expires. Some other commercial solutions you lease their software. Once license term expires so does your ability to use it.
I found, overall, the TopQuadrant suite may have a larger initial buy in, but the recurring maintenance costs over time lead them to be the more cost effective solution. But as I said previously, sponsors now seem to have the "open source" phrase firm planted in their mind. Not realizing that that solution requires a technology stack to be developed and integrated. Nor that open source solutions do not come with enterprise techsupport support anywhere near what a commercial product has. Not to mention the testing a commercial product has been put through. I found that higher ups (decision makers) have extended their home finance thinking to program budgets, as in "what is my monthly cost" and do not ask the right question "what will be the total cost in the end". -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Insight, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to topbraid-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TopBraid Suite Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
