Does anyone have experience with how Progress charges software
companies/developers.

My understand is that if you develop a software package for resale,
progress negotiates a licensing fee, which is a % of your revenue for
that product. They then also take a % of the ongoing maintenance fees.
Is this correct? If so what % are they taking? And is that reasonable
if you are developing a software packages that support less than 20
users. It seems to me that the development costs and ongoing costs in a
Microsoft environment would be significantly less expensive.

That said, if you have a product that is developed in Progress, what is
the best way to port it to a Microsoft solution and how expensive is
that.

Thanks

I believe the % of revenue pricing model is only if you are going t
sell a hosted application (ASP model). If your software will be sol
as a package that require one or more Progress licenses to be include
there will be reseller pricing which allows you to make some profit o
the licenses. In fact many Progress VAR's sell their applications wit
the database "embedded" and don't necessarily advertise the Progres
element. I work with both Progress and MS technology and have now fo
over 5 years and would probably opt for a .Net based environment fo
new product development that wasn't oriented towards an existin
Progress base. With Microsoft you can purchase a development produc
such as Visual Studio 2003 and create an application that can b
distributed royalty-free to multiple customers. In some cases you ca
even include MSDE which is an embedded version of SQL Server withou
additional licensing costs. This obviously limits you to a Window
environment whic may or may not be a problem. I have also maintaine
an MSDN Universal Subscription for the last two years and find havin
unfettered access to all of the Microsoft Business Software is a grea
benefit and well worth the $1000 or so per year it costs

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In article <1108180854.024235.313920@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>,
"Mark" <mpinsley@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have experience with how Progress charges software
> companies/developers.
>
> My understand is that if you develop a software package for resale,
> progress negotiates a licensing fee, which is a % of your revenue for
> that product. They then also take a % of the ongoing maintenance fees.
> Is this correct? If so what % are they taking? And is that reasonable

You can phone them you know. If you're going into business with them,
you should get use to speaking with them.

> if you are developing a software packages that support less than 20
> users. It seems to me that the development costs and ongoing costs in a
> Microsoft environment would be significantly less expensive.

There certainly is a certain thresh hold one needs before it becomes
viable. For example, 600 users on MS is nearly impossible, 600 on
Progress is cheaper than 600 on Oracle.

>
> That said, if you have a product that is developed in Progress, what is
> the best way to port it to a Microsoft solution and how expensive is
> that.
>
> Thanks

As expensive as a re-write from scratch.