All this talk about DataBases - Valentina

[-= JB =-]

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<=-