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64 bit ODBC Access to VFP Tables / DBC
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From
15/05/2009 12:53:12
Guy Pardoe
Pardoe Development Corporation
Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States
 
 
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15/05/2009 12:06:56
Gil Munk
The Scarborough Group, Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
COM/DCOM and OLE Automation
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01396303
Message ID:
01400161
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Ouch... thanks for following up with this info.

:)



>>>What does it cost? Their site doesn't reveal pricing as near as I could tell.
>>
>>I don't know yet. I've asked for a quote but I haven't received it yet. I'll post that to this thread when I get it.
>>
>
>For the bad news, and this I'll quote DataDirect:
>"As a point of reference, our standard license fee for 64bit is $5,000 per CPU, or $3,750 per core for multi-core CPU’s, per DBMS type"
>
>and support:
>"Support = 21% of License fee based on a 3 year commitment paid yearly"
>
>the DataDirect solution to accessing VFP data in a 64-bit environment works and is reasonably fast. It is ODBC.
>
>They will offer some discount. But, because of the price for us (2 Dual Core processors on my 64-bit server) even with a discount is just not justified I'm currently working on using my 64-bit application on my sharepoint server to access a Link server on a 32-bit platform to access the VFP data. So far it's klunky.
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