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SQL LiteSpeed Question

  • February 27, 2004 at 6:29 pm

    #161165

    Hello All. 

    I'm a DBA at a biotech firm in San Diego.  Last November, we purchased LiteSpeed licenses for 10 SQL Servers.  We decided to deploy on a small number of database servers before doing an enterprise-wide deployment.  The other day, I got a price quote for two additonal servers, only to learn that they have doubled their price, and added a 20% maintenance cost, renewable annually.  I really like this product, but I still haven't recovered from the sticker shock. 

    One of the "gotchas" to using 3rd party tools is dependence on the 3rd party.  Does anyone know what's going at DBAssociatesIT?  I know that they recently changed their name, that they are moving headquarters from Australia to the US, and that they got 9 million in VC funding. 

    Also, can anyone recommend other 3rd party compression tools comparable to SQL LiteSpeed? 

    Ron Dean

    rdean@illumina.com

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  • March 1, 2004 at 8:43 am

    #496472

    Check out http://www.sqlzip.com/ 

    Francis

  • March 3, 2004 at 4:03 pm

    #497119

    I went through the same thing.  The website suddenly doesn't list prices and from memory what they are quoting is twice as much as I expected.

    What gives?

     

  • March 3, 2004 at 4:45 pm

    #497132

    Won’t say who I talked to, but I heard that Insight, a VC firm in the Boston area, bought DBAssociatesIT.  We expected a price increase (after all, it was really under-priced for what it does), but not to double. 

     

    With no discounting, a dual-processor LiteSpeed license is going to cost $1,500 per box, plus $600 for maintenance, and $600 each year thereafter.  Had we known this last October when we bought five server licenses, we would have bought an extra ten.  Microsoft is also increasing its per-process license for SQL Server, so it likes we SQL Server DBA’s are getting Oraclized 😉

     

    I suspect that Insight evalutated the competition, talked to their big customers, and then decided to increase the price.  If they had talk with small to medium-size companies (probably a big share of their market) they might have come up with different pricing structure. 

     

    SAN storage of database backups is looking more and more attractive. 

     

     

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