Ceriel Jacobs wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:01:42 -0500 Kingsley Idehen wrote:
I am sure you agree, Virtuoso is very aggressively priced,
Comparing the normal Virtuoso server pricing ($1,599+25%=$1,999)
against 'Microsoft Windows SBS Server 2003 R2 Premium Edition'
($1,299+$489=$1,788) [2]
might give small and medium business (SMB) users the idea that Virtuoso is
quite hefty priced.
Yes, but please remember:
Virtuoso = Multi-Model (Relational, RDF-Graph, Document) DBMS + Virtual
Database + Web Application Server + Content Management Platform.
SQL Server = Relational DBMS + SSIS for ETL (this isn't Virtual DBMS
equivalent) .
Hopefully the, 50% discount, special offer at [1] lasts for some time.
That said, Microsoft is much bigger than OpenLink so we can also reflect
that in our pricing :-)
as per our
pricing page [1] :-)
As I am in the lucky position to test with both the Virtuoso open source and
commercial edition, after reading:
[1] Virtuoso Product pricing,
talks about: "Concurrent Database Server Threads per Virtuoso Server Instance"
[3] Conductor - System Admin page of Commercial Version: 06.01.3127,
talks about: "Maximum Licensed Client Connections"
combined with the fact that [3], section 'Clients' shows different numbers for:
(a) 'clients'
and
(b) 'threads running'.
raises the question what is actually being licensed/limited?
(a) 'clients', (b) 'threads running', or even (c) something else...?
Would you mind clarifying this matter?
Database Sessions (which are Threads). These are split between the DBMS
and Web Server functionality realms.
Anyway, lets discuss as I am very open to thoughts from the community
re. this important matter.
In our situation we would prefer to trade some workstation cores for
connections.
Instead of 8 cores with 10 connections, 2 cores with 40 connections.
Okay, will think about it relative to the new special offer pricing.
We would like to replicate, not cluster. Does replication still hasn't got any
relations with the clustering edition?
Cluster Edition uses special replication protocol across the Virtuoso
instances that constitute the cluster. Our cluster edition is
absolutely the way to go re. high availability and linear scale out via
horizontal partitioning.
Kingsley
Best regards,
Ceriel Jacobs
[1] http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/sales/vpricing2.htm
[2] http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSSERVER2003/SBS/HOWTOBUY/PRICING.MSPX
[3] http://localhost:8890/conductor/sys_info.vspx
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Regards,
Kingsley Idehen
President & CEO
OpenLink Software
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