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Support Alliance Services
The office building For large and small developers, we can customize our support services to provide:

  the kind of support
    you need,

  for the duration
    you need it,

  at a reasonable price.

SAS members benefit from a personalized approach and customizable options above and beyond the product-specific technical support terms. Under an SAS contract, you can call upon us for one or more hours per month for any kind of support — ranging from engineering advice to actual programming — to assist you on your project. We will work with you to create a support package that fits your particular needs."

You can lower your overall engineering costs with SAS Product Support. These fixed-rate contracts will save money versus paying full rate for hourly services. In addition, you can use our SAS Project Support program to obtain additional resources on a project-to-project basis. Flexible options allow you to customize your SAS program to meet your requirements. This helps you to meet your engineering needs and still stay within budget.


The support benefits listed below are described more fully in the two-page SAS.pdf version of this information (160 Kb, requires Adobe's free Acrobat Reader 3.0) or ask us to mail or fax the printed version to you.

SAS: Product Support SAS: Project Support
Support from our technical staff can be obtained both for Forth-related products and for customer-specified systems (for example, hardware problems or Forth systems from other vendors):
  • Qualified, expert engineering assistance
  • FORTH, Inc. product updates and releases
  • Personalized, dedicated resources
  • Beta program participation
  • Fixed costs for engineering support
  • Product and training discounts
  • Free FIG membership
    (see chart below)
  • Phone, fax, e-mail, and
    on-site support
Anyone subscribing to an SAS program is entitled to discounts and priority status with these services, which are available on a per-quote basis:
  • Needs assessment and technical review
  • Applications audit and feasibility studies
  • Short-term replacement personnel if you lose key technical staff
  • Ancillary resources for your new projects
  • Priority "quick-quote" response
  • Fixed-fee quotations


Some representative prices for the Product Support Program are given below:

SAS Product Support Level
(Hours per month)
1
(1)
2
(2)
3
(3)
A. 3 months
$350
$650
$950
B. 6 months
$675
$1250
$1800
C. 12 months
$1350
$2475
$3500
Hours are not cumulative from one month to the next, and are calculated based on telephone time and off-line engineering staff time spent working on your support. For the duration of your support period, you will qualify for 50% discounts on upgrade releases of FORTH, Inc. software covered under your SAS agreement.
Updated January 2000. Send comments to webmaster@forth.com.
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