Bernie, Friday, Razzak was expressing his great pleasure with the effectiveness of the output-restricted and time-restricted evaluation copy of R:BASE that can be downloaded from the rbase.com web page. I think you were one of the people who pushed for that a couple years ago.
There are several vendors who sell cheaply or give away the developers' copies of db server products and developer tools, assuming they lead to sales of the very high-dollar enterprise server products. RBTI's product line and pricing model is quite a bit different from those. R:BASE is both a developer product and the whole package for the end-user. I'll leave it to RBTI to figure out what will work best for them. Meanwhile, the RBTI Authorized Developer program also gets a lot of products into developers hands at low prices. We miss you, too, Bernie. What are we going to do for bad jokes? Bill On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Bernard Lis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hope everyone is having an exciting conference, wish I was there. > > I received a letter from SyBase offering a free *Full* Working Copy of SQL > Anywhere. No time restrictions. > download at www.sybase.com/provendatabase > Or they will send a cd if you ask for it. > > So why shouldn't R:Base do the same? > > Why should we worry about a single version being used for free -- it's the > multi versions where the money is, both for the Developers and for R:Base. > If a business user tries it out and it proves to be useful, they will > eventually need to have multi users. > *Then we got 'em! for now and in the future.* > > Food for thought, > Bernie Lis > >
