I guess its all how you look at it. I've spent a similar amount of money to support my needs. But in doing so, I've been able to process Tango/Witango requests for the past 8 years. So I would look at the cost as ~$4500 per year, and decide if that's acceptable or not.
I don't know what servers you are running now, maybe you only need to 2 licenses, or maybe just one. It might be possible to use 2 Standard licenses of 5.5 in places of your current system. Maybe you should consider using a hosting provider. It's hard to know exactly what the best course of action is for you, but you really should consider talking to WT about your situation. You never know what they might do. Robert -----Original Message----- From: WebDude [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 11:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Question... Robert, I cannot disagree with you and I do realize that this has nothing to do with Wi, but after purchasing a license for 25,000+ and then having that company abandon it less then a year later leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. I would love to upgrade, but money has been tight. I show that to get the 3 licenses following their upgrade path would cost 3596 per. No where have I ever seen nor was told I could get all 3 licenses for this price. The Dev studio would be 599. I see that as 11,387 to upgrade. Now not counting the licenses purchased way back to the Everyware days, I see the total investment costing over 36,387. Now you gotta admit, that is a chunk of change. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Shubert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 9:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Question... My understanding was that the unlimited enterprise/corporate license of 2000/4 was upgraded to 3 professional licenses of Witango. That allows for robust installations on 3 large scale servers. Granted it won't support a dozen machines like it used to, but you should still be able to get similar overall performance considering today's multicore servers. I would open a discussion with WT and see what is available to you. They obviously want to sell licenses and do work with people who are scaling up or down and who are moving up from 2000/4 after all this time. You will have some option available to you. That said, you do need to keep in mind that giving your money to Everyware or Pervasive did nothing to help WT along. They didn't get any of that cash and what was spent on development of the software seems to have not been spent wisely. My point is that while you might have a memory of spending money, WT doesn't have one of getting it. I do hope that when version 6 is out in both Studio and Server (debugged and stable) that WT will introduce a great incentive for users of all previous versions to upgrade. I personally feel that getting out of 3.x,4(2000),4.5 and 5.0 on all platforms would serve all the users, the community and WT best. Robert -----Original Message----- From: WebDude [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 7:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Question... Tom, I am in the same boat here. I have the Enterprise with unlimited registrations too. I have never upgraded because of the cost involved to put the server on multiple machines. The Enterprise version was a big chunk of doe at the time Pervasive sold it. I was hoping for a less expensive upgrade path, but when Pervasive's Tango bit the dust, all bets were off. WebDude -----Original Message----- From: Tom Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 12:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Witango-Talk: Question... Ok... I invested in Pervasive's Tango platform in the Enterprise edition... unlimited registrations, etc... And Everyware's Tango before that. Now I don't need that particular configuration. I'm currently a small shop with Witango as my primary platform. I'm currently at version 4.5. What advantages would I have if I upgraded to the current version? Thanks!!! ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
