Back in the middle 80's Microrim sent an offer to all the accountants in
North America. R:Base 2.1 for $145. At the time I was fighting reports
using dBase III+, and as soon as I saw that the report generator had
more than two levels of sub totaling and that I could put real text on
the subtotal rather than *sub total* I jumped. There was a really steep
learning curve for me out in the boonies, but one of the contractors
working on the main frame knew SQL and got me going. Never looked back.
Bernard Lis 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
<http://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
