Cost

They're free, we're cheaper. 

DevForce is cheaper ... much cheaper when you consider the total cost of designing, building, maintaining, and supporting your application over a period of years.

Consider the comparisons points below and estimate the savings of going with DevForce. 

If you went with RIA Services, what would it cost you in:

• Hours updating, testing, and redeploying the unnecessary changes to server code.
• Hours wading through thousands of lines of a DomainService to cope with a new database table or column.
• Days waiting for a response from support or critical fix that won’t arrive for months (if ever).
• Days writing and testing a workaround in the interim.
• Days writing a SOAP service to support a non-Silverlight client.
• Days hunting elusive bugs because it was too hard to write automated tests. 
• Sales lost because you were late to market or couldn’t offer features that customers wanted.

Count them up and convert them to dollars.

We think you’ll end up with a figure several times the cost of DevForce licenses.