Why is Sage selling a Microsoft product? These days the tech industry is all about coopetition; a basic principle described in Game Theory by John Nash where competitive companies cooperate. “What is best for the group is best for an individual in the group”.
Microsoft SQL has become the database of choice for Sage ERP Accpac, and many other Sage products, as it is fast and efficient. What more details? Talk to our techy, programmer, IT Ninja Matt@Unisoft.net and he will chat your ear off for days about why this combination provides superior environment. Ask him about Accpac with Pervasive or just about any other DB and you might as well run for the hills. So what is the deal anyways…
Sage is reintroducing Sage ERP Accpac with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Runtime Edition (available for 32-Bit and 64-Bit) with a new competitive pricing model. This comes bundled with Sage ERP Accpac and its related applications and the capability is guaranteed.
Any of our Sage Accpac clients that would like to migrate from one of the competitive databases listed below is now able to for the low, low price of $75/CAL!
Competitive Databases: IBM, Oracle, Sybase, FoxPro, Pervasive, MySQL and ProvideX
Any new client can purchase the bundled Microsoft SQL Runtime Edition for Sage ERP Accpac for $175 per user CAL. For customers with 30 or more users, the “Per Processor” license is more cost effective. Per Processor licensing is now $5,000.
| MS-SQL CAL |
$175 |
| MS-SQL CAL Competitive Upgrade * |
$75 |
| Per Processor |
$5,000 |
* Business Care on all Competitive Upgrade CALs are based on the Full Cost of $175/CAL.
What you need to know about the Microsoft SQL Server Runtime version:
- Is MS-SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition bundled with the Sage ERP Accpac.
- Can be used for Sage ERP Accpac, SageCRM, any other Sage Accpac-related applications, and any application integrating with Sage ERP Accpac.
- Is technically identical to the full MS-SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition including all the same database administration tools and same performance with no restrictions on database size.
- Is NOT the same as the free MS-SQL Express edition.
- Has restricted use rights and terms that can only be used for Sage Accpac-related applications or any application that is integrated with Sage ERP Accpac or SageCRM.
If you have any other questions, please contact Scott@Unisoft.net / 604-926-3398 or refer to the new FAQ document.