On Feb 19, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
Mostly I'd agree except that I also tend to suspect that many that
have been on board for a long time are also the people who are
earning livings from RB
I think it would be better to know who is using it in that fashion
i agree. though from a pure business standpoint, those of use who've
been with rb the longest also have the largest cost of leaving. i
have 5 years invested in an app in RB... it would be nearly
impossible for me to leave now. RB can piss me off a lot before i
could afford to jump ship. it sucks to admit that, but i'm pretty
well stuck for now (perhaps when my app ships in the next few months
i'll have the cash flow to hire programmers to port the thing, but i
have no desire to now and besides - thats a long ways off).
seems to me the majority of Rb's income must be from hobbyists,
people learning to program, writing small apps for themselves, etc.
this is not a judgement call on those users, but a very real
consideration... RB needs to keep them happy, because we ride on
their backs.
the only real way to tip this balance is for all of us using rb for
full time development to demand RB charges us more money - something
i doubt we will do - or voluntarily join the developers program. i
know we've discussed this before Norman, but my outlay to RB is <$400
a yr... they could add one cool new feature and attract 100 new
adopters - there is very little incentive to implement power user
thingy X.
oooo oooo, add that to your survey... i'd be very interested to see
how many people are in the dev program, or how many licenses their
organization has.
mike
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