We're a shop with about 30 developers, currently using NHibernate.  We're considering changing to a different ORM tool, and two questions we need to answer first:

 How many licenses do need?  Right now a single programmer does the code generation, and commits the results to Subversion.  Your web site talks about any using the API calls would also need a license?

 
Do you have any form of paid, telephone support?

 
Thanks...

Dave
 

Let me answer the support question first, no, we do not do telephone support, but we are very responsive, also, EntitySpaces is SO MUCH easier to use and extremely well tested. We have no distinction between those running our trial or customers, our support is the same and top notch. But let me say we do take support very seriously, it's something we excel at.

Now the license question (from our license)

Our developer licenses are licensed per developer seat. A developer seat is required for each developer that uses the EntitySpaces templates to generate code or that uses the generated EntitySpaces API in their programming tasks.

This is a long answer but should help. We are changing our license so that there will not even be a mention of code generation (it's just confusing people). Our license is based on developers using the EntitySpaces objects (basically all developers on a project). The real benefit for a team is that coding then becomes extremely efficient. My guess is your team would (I know this to be the case) see a huge boost in productivity and our renewal fees are even less expensive. Not only that but you would get all new releases for a year with no distinction between minor and major versions.

I believe (but don't hold me to this) the price at 30 developers is:

 
 4470
- 894 (20% discount)
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$3576

However, we could add 25% bracket at say 15 users to further entice you? 

 

 

 

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I hope you don't mind me butting in with an unsolicited testimonial, but I have had my small group of developers using Entity Spaces for about 18 months, and the support has been exceptional.  We have not had many issues, but when we have, we have received the best support I have ever received from any company - period.  For comparison, I pay a lot of money so I can call Infragistics and get phone support, but rarely do I get a solution quickly.  On the other hand, the folks at ES have always solved our problem right away.  Today, one of my programmer had an issue with the beta of ES 2008, and got a detailed answer immediately.

We were using another ORM for a couple of years, and my programmers are much happier and more productive with ES.  We have a number of WinForms applications and some busy web sites running ES, and everything has been rock solid.  The product was good when we bought it, and it has gotten even better with every release.  We are currently working on a very complex WinForms application that must be portable between MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, and PostGre, and ES has eliminated about 90% of custom SQL we would normally need (although we still need to code our most complex queries for each database).  ES 2008 is a big step forward, because we were able to use a lot less raw SQL by using the new subquery ability.

 

 

 

Wow! I sure don't mind you butting in. These are the posts that keep us motivated. Thx for that.

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David Neal Parsons
www.entityspaces.net