On Sunday, February 19, 2006, at 10:46PM, Troy Rollins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Feb 19, 2006, at 5:33 PM, Mike Woodworth wrote: > >> 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 > >I won't ask them to, but I'd probably pony up the cash for a more >professional oriented product. TrollTech's Qt is a good example of >professionals willing to pay a fairly hefty fee for what they see as >a powerful productive environment. If RB pro were $2000, but >delivered on the promise of being "pro", it would probably be well >worth it.
I'd be inclined to agree. I believe it would safeguard my investment in RB if I were to pay more for my development licenses. I have invested a lot of time & effort in a product I have written in RB 5.5. It would cost me a fortune in time & effort to rewrite it in Cocoa, C#, or in C++ with Qt. Although I have to admit timescales may push to rewrite this particular application (as I'm going to need solid Universal support sooner rather than later.) REAL Software is stuck in a problematic place. It's the classic inflection point in the growth curve of a small company, where you need to bring on more people to service the potential business you have, but you can't afford those new people until you've got more business. What REAL Software probably needs most is a business angel to invest $1m or so in the company, to give them the room to grow and properly service their customers. Of course, I'm in the same position and I know the money isn't easy to come by. When it is, you end up giving away so much of your company as you're left with little incentive to keep running it, as you're giving the lion's share of the profits to your VC backers. The world's a cruel place. And I agree with Charles; if you weren't around in the RB 1.0 days, you have absolutely no concept of how far REALbasic has come. You have probably already benefited from being able to write applications with RB that quite possibly you wouldn't have been able to write otherwise. It's probably difficult to see that when you're waiting on RB to compile, but it's true none-the-less. -- Kind regards, James Milne RB veteran! _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
