Individuals can purchase a License Key for $79.99 by following the instructions that appear when you launch Plum.
Thanks for your help, Glenn. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Member of Team Macromedia http://www.ProductivityEnhancement.com Download Plum and other cool development tools, and get advanced intensive Master-level training: * C# & ASP.NET for ColdFusion Developers * ColdFusion MX Master Class * Advanced Development with CFMX and SQL Server 2000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Laymon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 12:23 PM Subject: RE: [plum] Plum version releases, and what they will contain > Adam... > > I am willing to help sponsor your development, but I as an individual - not > as a Corporate. I'm a one man shop and don't need a banner. My sponsorship > would have to be considered modest and maybe not enough to help your overall > funding but I'm willing to contribute whatever I can. Maybe you could find > a place for me. > > Glenn Laymon > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam > Churvis > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 8:56 AM > To: Plum Discussion List > Subject: [plum] Plum version releases, and what they will contain > > David and I spent the past couple of days going over the Plum Action Items > list, then we created a formal Microsoft Project plan to organize, triage, > and project how long it would take to complete everything that was slated > for V1.1. > > We quickly realized that we are going to need some sort of corporate > financial sponsorship to continue upgrading Plum at any significant pace, > which I'll address in a moment. > > We've decided to split up the new enhancements and features as follows: > > http://www.productivityenhancement.com/plum/ReleaseOrder.cfm (please don't > circulate this link. It's for this discussion list only, and subject to > change.) > > All bug fixes, the removal of mandatory aliasing from queries used with Plum > custom tags, and the new CF_2CFMODULE service will be incorporated into > V1.01, which we should have finished before CFUNITED. This will not only > bring better stability to Plum, it will will also make Plum significantly > easier to work with both during development and deployment. > > For releases beyond V1.01... > > You have to understand that Plum is a *very* involved product under the > covers, and it takes one hell of a lot of work to make things as easy as > they are on the surface. We put a lot of time into Plum, all funded by what > we earn from our consultation and training business, but we're going to need > some additional funding in order to have more than one or two releases per > year. By not having to parcel out little bits of Plum development time > every week, we can treat Plum just like it's one of our regular development > jobs and give it our full attention and concentration. > > We never expected to have a lot of people contribute to Plum by purchasing a > License Key (it never will make that much of a difference compared to the > amount of work people have requested to go into the product), but we can > easily speed up the Plum release schedule by acquiring some corporate > funding. > > We'll place a lifetime banner ad in the Plum IDE for companies who sponsor a > release of Plum, plus a spot on the Plum pages on our website, plus a > hyperlink in the footers of the Plum Discussion List messages. We've split > up the release points such that each is approximately the same amount of > work as the other, so they'll all cost the same. > > If you're interested in sponsoring a release of Plum, please contact me > privately by phone at 770-446-8866 so we can discuss the cost of sponsorship > and the details of your banner ad. > > Don't worry -- if we don't get any corporate sponsors, we'll still continue > to develop new releases of Plum; they will just take significantly longer to > develop. > > So anyway, what do you all think about the release order? What do you think > about the idea of corporate sponsorship? > > Respectfully, > > Adam Phillip Churvis > Member of Team Macromedia > http://www.ProductivityEnhancement.com > > Download Plum and other cool development tools, and get advanced intensive > Master-level training: > > * C# & ASP.NET for ColdFusion Developers > * ColdFusion MX Master Class > * Advanced Development with CFMX and SQL Server 2000 > > > ********************************************************************** > You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists, and you can change your > subscriptions between normal and digest modes here: > > http://www.productivityenhancement.com/support/DiscussionListsForm.cfm > ********************************************************************** > > > > ********************************************************************** > You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists, and you can change > your subscriptions between normal and digest modes here: > > http://www.productivityenhancement.com/support/DiscussionListsForm.cfm > ********************************************************************** > ********************************************************************** You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists, and you can change your subscriptions between normal and digest modes here: http://www.productivityenhancement.com/support/DiscussionListsForm.cfm **********************************************************************
