On Jun 1, 2007, at 7:56 AM, Lynn Fredricks wrote:
Unless you want to do something that violates the EULA, Valentina is
royalty
free. With the "ADKs" its pretty simple - you can develop and deploy
as many
as many apps as you like and ship as many units as you like.
With VDN, you can deploy the Valentina Embedded Server in its default
5-connection verision also without limitation.
There are two options to consider if you need more than this default 5:
1. Connections. You can buy additional connections that you in turn
can sell
to your customers. So if you have 5 customers for example, and they
wanted:
7 connections, 10 connections, 6 connections, 20 connections and 8
connections, then you wou would need (2,5,1,15,3) 26 additional
connections.
You can buy these in volume and get the price way down on a per
connection
basis.
2. Embedded Server - Infinite. There's a per deployment no limits
connection
version of Embedded Server you can sell your customers. It cost $400.
The Embedded Server option really comes into its own with VDN Pro and
VDN
Enterprise. VDN Pro also includes VPHP, VRUBY and VODBC. With VDN
Enterprise, you also get the SSL and Bonjour adapters (you can get
these
also with any version of VDN, at a separate cost). With these options,
you
are effectively able to deploy the equivalent of our high end Valentina
Office Server.
Something I would like to point out with these options, compared with
mySQL,
Oracle, MS SQL Server, is that, except for some very minimal
requirements
(copyrights, etc), mostly rebrand our servers. Even if you get a deal
with
the company to deploy their server, their server is very strongly
branded.
Your customer really becomes THEIR customer. You don't have to "lock"
your
customer into Valentina certainly. But the methodology we use basically
ensures that we don't compete against our own customers.
Best regards,
Lynn Fredricks
President
Paradigma Software
http://www.paradigmasoft.com
Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server
Thanks for taking the time to explain it in detail.
-=>JB<=-
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