anyone crazy enough to file a feature request??
i was reading wired at the coffee shop today - about the small team
lego brought in to help design their new mindstorm product. perhaps
something like that could exist for RB... something beyond the beta
group... like a very small focus group of people with products that
RB sees as advantageous to foster, or people willing to shell out the
money to join.
this may be a disastrous idea... or perhaps redundant with the dev
program, i have yet to put my money where my mouth is and join that -
i was hoping to wait till i was making money from my product, but i
could be convinced to join earlier. maybe something like a painful
fix program - like a quick fix but we can ask ask rb for a cost to
deliver it, and decide to spend it or not - for those bugs they cant
solve in a day... i can think of bugs i'd drop 1-2k to fix.
mike
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Mike Woodworth
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On Feb 19, 2006, at 5:58 PM, James Milne wrote:
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!
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