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COMPARISON
- Designer Features
- Installer Features
- User Interface
- Enterprise Installation Features
- Team Development Features
- Cost of Ownership
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FEATURES
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INSTALLANYWHERE 6 ENTERPRISE
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INSTALLSHIELD MULTIPLATFORM 5.0
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Designer Features
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| Designer runs on multiple platforms |
YES
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YES
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| Designer runs in English, French, German, and Japanese |
YES
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NO
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| Developer can build installers through command line |
YES
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YES
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| Automatically detect main class |
YES
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Only during initial wizard
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| Automatically determine classpath |
YES
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NO
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| Bundles Java Virtual Machines |
YES
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YES
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| Downloaded bundled VMs |
YES
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YES
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| Visual representation of installation destination |
YES
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NO
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| Optimizes platform specific installers to include only native resources |
YES
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NO
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| Ability to preview all aspects of the installer without having to build |
YES
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NO
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Installer Features
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| Installer can be delivered by CD/DVD or over the Web through a Java Applet |
YES
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YES
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| Installer can span multiple CDs or DVDs |
YES
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YES
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| Display message dialogs during installation |
YES
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NO
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| Ability to add rules to every item in the installer |
YES
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NO
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| Generates serial numbers to enable software protection |
YES
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NO
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| Expand archives during installation (ZIPs, JARs, EARs, WARs, MacBinary, and other formats) |
YES
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NO
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| Supports platform specific install destinations |
YES
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NO
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| Installs native packages on Solaris and Linux (SV5 packages and RPMs) |
YES
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YES
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| Installs native packages on HP-UX (depot files) |
YES
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YES
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| Installer overhead |
1.3 MB
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5.9 MB
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User Interface
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| Installer can run graphically, in a console or silently |
YES
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YES
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| Installers assume the look and feel of their target platform |
YES
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YES
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| Install labels show user progress in installer |
YES
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NO
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| Contains graphics library |
YES
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YES
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| Installers display end-user help |
YES
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NO
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| Supports PNG images, allowing full alpha-channel transparency |
YES
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NO
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Enterprise Installation Features
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| Builds installers for updates and patches |
YES
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YES
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| Supports registry to track installation and version information |
YES
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YES
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| Executes Ant tasks during installation (allowing EJB deployment and other complex configurations tasks) |
YES
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NO
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| Performs XSLT transformations during installation |
YES
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NO
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| Modifies files in archives, easing WAR and EAR file deployment |
YES
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NO
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| Easy integration of software live updating |
YES
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NO
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| Single installer runs on multiple locales |
YES
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NO
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| Number of languages supported by installer |
29
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27
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Team Development Features
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| Supports suite installations |
YES
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YES
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| Supports source paths, allowing a single project file to be easily moved to multiple systems |
YES
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YES
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| Publishes Merge Modules, easing complex suite installations |
YES
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NO
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| Automatically merge multiple installer projects at installer design time |
YES
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NO
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| Create Templates that allow development teams to start from pre-built projects |
YES
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NO
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| Automatically includes files in installer from Manifest files |
YES
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NO
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| Build installers through an Ant action, allowing easy integration with existing build processes |
YES
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NO
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Cost of Ownership*
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| Licensing - Initial cost (in USD) |
2,999
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2,499
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| Premium Support/year (in USD) |
1,495
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1,499
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| Maintenance & Upgrades/year (in USD) |
included with the Premium Support
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1,149
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| Total (in USD) |
4,494
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5,147
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*Prices are subject to change aty any moment.
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