Hello Axel, Thank you very much for joining in on the discussion and for your encouraging words! In particular for the hint with respect to the JRebel ROI calculator is very good. I've had a similar idea in mind. It's true that helping engineers convince their managers is an important next step to help promote jOOQ.
Best Regards, Lukas 2013/10/13 <[email protected]> > Hi everyone, > > I, for one, agree with Lukas' decision about the license change. As some > of you have already pointed out, everyone needs to eat, including Lukas. He > has invested countless hours into building a great product with great > documentation. He probably spends even more time answering all the > questions on this mailing list, stack overflow and the issue tracker. And > yet, some people are firm believers that the awesome end result of this > effort, jOOQ, is worth 0. Every single penny is too much, either it's > totally free, or they don't want it. And that's OK. I strongly believe > there will be many other people who will recognize the incredible value > jOOQ provides, and will be happy to support it. After all, who would want > to go back to plain jdbc, spring jdbc or hibernate? Heck, that thought > alone is worth some money! > > In fact the pricing structure is very democratic (almost a joke!) compared > to what the commercial DB vendors charge per processor core and for > support. And yes, maybe it needs some fine tuning (see the discussion about > the express editions), but let's be honest, what are a few hundred euros > per year for a company that can afford to run Oracle or SQL Server in > production? Absolutely nothing. All that is needed is a little bit of > convincing with a business case. Lukas, maybe you could set up a ROI > calculator like JRebel has on the pricing page? This would make it easier > for users to argue why it is a great deal! > > Keep up the excellent work and thanks for making such a great library! > Axel > > P.S.: I am both an independent consultant and an open-source developer (I > make Flyway, flywaydb.org), so I understand both sides, and what their > thoughts and tradeoffs are, really well. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jOOQ User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jOOQ User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
