Plum will be free and fully functional in every way without any crippling or restrictions of any kind, but the small ad you see in the lower left corner below the tree control will appear. It will rotate every minute and the selection of ads will change every month. For now the ads are just for our services and training, and I don't forsee a time when we'd make any real revenue off Plum ad space sold to other companies.
If a developer wants to contribute $79.95 to the Plum development effort, we'll issue him or her a License Key that makes the ad disappear as a way of saying "Thanks," but the License Key makes no changes to Plum itself (it doesn't have to, because everything is already enabled). We're going to have free support via the Plum Discussion List and our online Troubleshooting Wizard that is soon to be launched, but we're also going to make telephone support available for $495 per year for corporate clients who want instant support for critical apps. I don't forsee the need for it, really, but some may want it so we're going to offer it. We figured that this is the most friendly approach we could take, and that it supported the developer community without being greedy. We think it's both sensible and reasonable, and we hope everyone else does, too. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Member of Team Macromedia Advanced Intensive Training: * C# & ASP.NET for ColdFusion Developers * ColdFusion MX Master Class * Advanced Development with CFMX and SQL Server 2000 http://www.ColdFusionTraining.com Download CommerceBlocks V2.1 and LoRCAT from http://www.ProductivityEnhancement.com The ColdFusion MX Bible is in bookstores now! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [plum] Online demo, docs are done, next release... > > really? > i thought it was gunna be like $80? > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: "Adam Churvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 22:13:14 -0400 > > >> they do go very fast... so potential buyers... > > > >One other important note I forgot to mention: Plum is absolutely free of > >charge to everyone. > > > >Respectfully, > > > >Adam Phillip Churvis > >Member of Team Macromedia > > > >Advanced Intensive Training: > >* C# & ASP.NET for ColdFusion Developers > >* ColdFusion MX Master Class > >* Advanced Development with CFMX and SQL Server 2000 > >http://www.ColdFusionTraining.com > > > >Download CommerceBlocks V2.1 and LoRCAT from > >http://www.ProductivityEnhancement.com > > > >The ColdFusion MX Bible is in bookstores now! > > > > > > > >
