Well, its been fun, but I have to go now.
I'd like to thank everyone, specially Scott, for their fantastic
assistance, and hope that my occasional contributions have been helpful
too. I'd like to wish you all the best of success.
But the time has come that I have to make a decision, and sadly as an
amateur programmer the price of Metacard is way beyond my budget. It is
three times as expensive as Visual Basic, and while you can easily argue
that MC is more than three times as good as VB, the reality is that this
does *not* translate into three times as many sales.
I believe that the market for MC would double or triple if they would
take a leaf out of Microsoft's strategty for Visual Basic and introduce
a two or three-tier pricing structure, starting at (say) $100 for a
basic edition and going up from there for the Professional Edition with
all the bells and whistles.
The Starter Kit is a good start as a demo or a runtime engine, but lets
face it: with a ten line limit in scripts, that makes it crippleware and
totally unsuitable for anything but the most simple applications.
So I'd like to wish everyone great success, and hope that starting next
month Metacard Corp, like Microsoft have, and Delphi and Borland before
them, will see the wisdom in capturing the home/small business market
and use that as a foothold in gaining the lions share of the software
development market.
--
Steven D'Aprano
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