At 3:26 PM +1100 11/2/06, Tom Benson wrote:
RB Lite - Platform specific, single compilation target, no support
for container controls or multi user databases and maybe no external
plugin support.
RB Standard - DIY version with container control support and plugin support.
RB Database - Standard with multi user database support (still
single compilation target)
RB Professional - Database Edition with multiple compilation targets
and hooks for remote debugger stubs, plus a bloody project
collaboration manager!
RB Enterprise - Database Edition, with a licence key for each
platform's IDE (i.e - includes mac, windows and linux IDE key's.)
There is too much difference (multiple compilation targets, multi
user databases, container controls + more) between Standard and Pro
at the moment. IMO this is significantly contributing to the 3rd
part market issues being discussed at such a great depth on the list
at the moment.
Sure! You forgot about the academic versions. I think Geoff has a
soft spot for under resourced education people, bless him.
And it sure makes for a more complicated purchasing model. I sure
wouldn't want RB Lite Academic ;-)
Steve Jobs wouldn't even consider Toms' model (remember all those PPC
models, eg 7200, 7500). He streamlined a lot of Apple's products.
There's no way RS should make it mode complicated.....
In fact get rid of the academic options.
Either it's RB or RB Pro. Simple.
--
Cheers,
Dr Gerard Hammond
Bioinformatic Analyst
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia.
Bioinformatics is the science of managing, mining and interpreting
information from biological and clinical data, including sequences,
structures, gene expression profiles, mass spectra and medical
records.
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