Dan,
since Rebol is not an open source or GNUware company, I cannot
evaluate their plans in comparison to RedHat or other significant
Open source-based entities. However, I see two options with this
Command release. One, you're right, you only get it if you pay
the big (how big?) bucks. Or two, you get it for free, and are
really paying for deadtree manuals, 1-800 tech support, and other
service-based bells and whistles.
Since Rebol hasn't made any noticeable moves into the O.S.
field, I suspect it's your option. Too bad, too - free sourcing
it a la GNU GPL would be make it a lot more attractive to the
brainpower currently devoted to os perl.
Speculation all,
Chuck
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> What does "professional" release mean?
> Implies a separate more feature-rich version with a price tag?
>
> Regards,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > REBOL/Command basic specs:
> >
> > In reply to Petr's question about specs (in the Psion thread), the primary
>features added in the Command version will be ODBC Support, ability to call out to
>the command shell, and ability to call dynamically loadable libraries (DLLs, etc.)
>The anticipated release is in the next couple weeks. We're also planning to add a
>plug-in for Apache shortly after the Command release.
> >
> > Based on all the great user feedback over the last few months, (and there's been a
>lot...just ask Bo :) these were the features that seemed of highest priority for the
>professional release. We realize that there are a number of others and we will crank
>those out as quickly as possible.
