Article:		SVG: Where Are We Now?
Subject:		SVG Charts (Agileblox Vs. Flash)
Date:		2003-06-15 18:56:41
From:		Kate Novac
Cost: Agileblox cost US$1,350 verses just US$99 for FusionCharts. Agileblox needs ASV3 (Adobe SVG Viewer 3.0). However, if you call Adobe for any help, they tell you that it is not a supported product. Also, they refuse to comment about any future plans for ASV, which led many to speculate that ASV would be discontinued. It is installed on about 7% of the computers. On the other hand FusionCharts needs Macromedia’s Flash-player, which is installed on well over 99% computers. If you try the products, you would notice FusionCharts are far simpler than Agileblox. Agileblox requires custom-installations and supports only limited server-platforms. FusionCharts doesn’t require any installation and runs on all web-server platforms. If you know how to create XML-files on your favorite platform, creating Charts using FusionCharts is a snap. To further simplify this task FusionCharts provide sample XML-files as templates. All you need to do is just update the data and style in the sample template. No complicated Java API to learn. Both support rich set of charts and features. However, FusionCharts has large installed base of customers, their valuable inputs help them to learn and improve the product. This led them to implement popular charts (Ex: Bar-and-line combo-chart etc.) and features (Ex: TrendLine, TrendZones etc.), which are not supported by Agileblox. It has been 18 months since the release of Agileblox 1.0 and still at version 1.0. It is yet to announce any plans for future upgrades. During the same period FusionCharts released many upgrades with many additional useful features based on feedbacks from large installed base of customers. P.S: Would Elansoft care to comment on the fraud-charges at: http://www.manero.org/weblog/archives/000083.html ?

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