Re: Platinum ERwin: Cost

Patrick,

You may also want to check out Embarcadero's ERStudio. It's not as full-featured as ERWin, but has all the major data modeling functionality.

It's less expensive than ERWin; not sure if they have academic discounts.

Sean

Patrick Lanphier <planphier_at_psu.edu> wrote in message news:3724A77E.A35CCF2B_at_psu.edu...
> We here at The Pennsylvania State University would like to use ERwin for
our CACTUS project and then
> go on to teach database modeling with ERwin in the future, however, we can
not afford to even buy
> two copies of ERwin at $2865.00 with their large discount of 18% (just
kidding) and maintenance of
> $695.00 on each license which I believe they said could not be discounted.
We would also like to
> use the Modelmart with a price tag of $9,500 with it's 5% discount. This
comes to a total price tag
> of $16,620 which is unreasonable in academia. Many of you would probably
think this discounting
> would be reasonable, however, in academia this is unacceptable, if you
would like to see your
> children learn the latest tools before they get out of college so that
they can have a step up in
> getting the job they desire in this field then we can not allow this to
happen. If you have a
> contact at Platinum that could truly assist me or would like to contact
Platinum yourself, it would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Patrick Lanphier
> Advanced Information Technologies
> The Pennsylvania State University
Received on Tue Apr 27 1999 - 16:27:15 CEST