Anywhere Studio is that the rep s databases, despite their power and sophistication, need virtually no management or maintenance to keep them running smoothly. The company has the equivalent of one full time support staff member to maintain the application for the entire workforce. Developing Phoenix using competing database technology would have, according to Lloyd, been far more difficult because no other database had a small enough footprint to run on Wyeth s low spec legacy hardware. The power of the database, the replication technology and the low cost of SQL Anywhere Studio user licenses made iAnywhere Solutions an unbeatable choice, concludes Lloyd. A unique attraction of iAnywhere Solutions to Wyeth was that it included replication with SQL Anywhere Studio running on a Windows NT server out of the box -without the need for any hand coding whatsoever.
Replication is also much faster and more reliable than previously possible.
During our evaluation, we found that to develop an application using Oracle, the cost of a similar number of user licenses alone would have amounted to more than double the cost of the entire Phoenix project.