> G'day Jay, > On Thursday, June 17, 2010, at 3:49:10 PM, you (Jay Walker) wrote:
JW>> 2010/6/14 Ian A. White <r...@thebat.net>: >>> So I take it that The Bat! is going to move to a subscription model? JW>> Ian, it doesn't strike me as much of a move. For just about all JW>> practical purposes, TB licensing has been a subscription model since JW>> v2.0. :) > It isn't really, just that maybe it needed to be said. > RITLabs are being up front about this, however there can be twists and > turns. I might be a touch jaded as a lot of the software I use that > went to a subscription model started out OK, but then some of the > turns saw it become nothing more than a revenue raiser. Originally > there was the promise of upgrades during the currency of a > subscription, only all that went out the window when it became annual > new version releases. This meant there were no upgrades at all. There > was the promise of support, only no support was offered. It had to be > provided by dealers under a separate commercial arrangement. Then it > moved to a retirement policy where if you had not upgraded for more > than 3 new releases, you had to re-buy. The licence went from being a > perpetual licence that had to be refreshed every 3 years, and once > retired, they were reluctant to refresh it for another 3 years - never > mind about upgrades. > So, you can see, the road to subscriptions can be quite rocky. It > gives the software vendor a somewhat better revenue stream (no issues > with that), however it does also demand more of them. > So, no real issues, just that some can have issues with it. That sounds like Quicken ... -- Rick You're only young once; you can be immature forever v4.2.36.4 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.2.33.9 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
