eValid™ -- Automated Web Quality Solution Browser-Based, Client-Side, Functional Testing & Validation, Load & Performance Tuning, Page Timing, Website Analysis, and Rich Internet Application Monitoring. © Copyright 2000-2011 by Software Research, Inc.

Description
Beginning several years ago eValid has been available only on a subscription basis. Here are some of the justifications, explanations, and benefits of this type of licensing.

• History
  Beginning in mid-2004 we began to see that older versions of eValid, e.g. with eValid Version 4, were not reliable on modern websites. Website technology was advancing to beyond where prior eValid versions were causing more problems than they were solving.

  We began to understand that to provide good technical service to eValid customers in a context of very rapid development of web sites and web application technology we would need to continually update the eValid product to meet the emerging standards and challenges of web technology.

  Accordingly, in the interests of our customers we updated our licensing to an annual subscription model. This approach reflects the kind of licensing model that most web-oriented products today employ.

• Rapid Change
  As a user, you may not be aware of this, but changes in how websites are built and deployed virtually require us to update eValid on a continuous basis. There are new builds produced and deployed several times each month. Because of these changes, our policy generally has been to support only the most-recent eValid builds.

• Benefits
  The subscription model that we use benefits customers/users because with access to eValid on a continuous subscription basis there is less likelihood of a technical problem -- the most recent eValid builds always keep up with the latest Web technologies, assure fewer interruptions in your testing, and work to increase the value of your investment.

  This way your developer/tester teams can focus on their real job and not have to be concerned with technical issues that may result in script updates.

  This model also reduces the number of support issues we need to deal with and that in turn makes it possible to keep our product subscription prices constant as the eValid product content grows in breadth and depth, and as eValid quality and reliability progress.

• Our Support Plan
  Support for V5 ends in April 2006, in favor of V6. Support for V6 ends in April 2007, in favor of V7. Support for V7 ends in April 2008, in favor of V8. Support for V8 ends in April 2009, in favor of V9.