John A Bertoglio wrote: > While you have an obligation to purchase a development system, this > can be deferred while you evaluate the technology.
And while someone figures out what it cost. There is no need for me to rehash points on which we are pretty much in agreement. That's why I write mainly about disagreements. > The downloadable version > won't support all the enterprise features but it is more than enough for > basic development and testing. The is just plain untrue. Someone from ISC made that remark. But I challenged him and he conceded that he had no idea if what he was saying was true. He just heard it somewhere. It's hype. The fact is that you can't develop most serious applications with a one job system. Then not long ago Mr McCormick said, and I'm not quoting him, that a download version couldn't even purge its own logs because a device is a slot and you get only one. So the download version can't even run a task at a time with task manager. And then there's the matter of web slots. Even Lori admitted that Cache' couldn't count sessions. If you are developing CSPs and crashing your browser, you can get <LICENSE LIMIT EXCEEDED> very easily and needlessly. > ... at the end of the day, you pay a fair price. I still haven't been contacted. And I think your wrong anyway. I'm pretty sure that they couldn't give me a fair price. ISC was inflexible simply because they have no policy for it. A gentleman in California wanted to provide Cache'/CSP hosting and ISC said no way would they license it. So has they end of the day come? > I am sure > that if someone built a $60 single user video game that required a single > user license, ISC would figure out a way to make that customer's product > deployable. How long would it take them to figure it out? What about $6? How about competing with MySQL? > Another point is support and upgrades. These, over time, can > cost more than the initial purchase price. It's also a way the license cost could be amortized.
