David, I never said that you or anyone shouldn't complain, just don't whine about it.
My intent was only to offer a different perspective. By the way, read my post again. My company does not sell any software products. I am an end user and my company paid $3,700 for that product, and they considered it a deal. The databases I design and the software we develop is all in-house and has NEVER been sold as a product. As a user, I never implement the first release of any software product into a production environment. Thus, at home, I still use 2005b for anything that I am getting paid for or for anything commissioned that I have a deadline for. Your Geo analogy wholly misses the mark of what I was trying to communicate. If you want to have an honest discussion, I am willing to continue the thread. If, however, you just want to vent and don't care to understand what I am trying to say, then I am not interested. I understand that I do not know everything and will consider any intellectually honest things that you or anyone else has to say, whether I agree with them or not. However, vitriolic rhetoric is nugatory and unworthy of our time. Sincerely, Richard -----Original Message----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > PS - The software that I use to design databases cost $3,700 US > dollars for one copy. If I wanted a personal copy, I was told they > could discount it for to $3,325 <LOL>. In my opinion this product > does not have to handle as complex logic as required for music > engraving products such as Finale or Sibelius etc. So by your logic, the owner of a Chevrolet Geo doesn't have as much right to complain about an engine that shuts off in the middle of the highway as the owner of the much more expensive Cadillac? Is that what you're saying? Because if you're not saying that, the cost of the software doesn't enter into the equation at all. Your company sells a $3700 product because there are businesses out there (and individuals?) willing to pay that much rather than messing with Access or Alpha5 or the much more reasonably priced database applications. MM sells Finale for what it feels it can find a market for. Your company sells its product for what it feels it can find a market for. Big deal. But the fact that Finale costs less than your database application in no way lets MM off the hook for data-destroying bugs. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
