> FWIW there was an email went round warning of significant > price increases in Australia as of 5 July. > > Due to the failure of the distributor to make it clear how > the price of upgrades would increase (as opposed to new > versions) and my concerns over current bugs, I chose not to upgrade. > > I couldn't find out how much I would be saving and by waiting > until some bugs are fixed and I have more time to deal with > them I get to make my upgrade last longer.
When looking at this, it's a good idea to look at what's going on at the mothership. If REAL (USA) is raising prices, its going to happen everywhere else. Plus - if there have been issues related to currency valuation, its likely it will all get settled when there is a price adjustment at the mothership - often resulting in a higher than expected price change. Or, it could be that reseller/distributor margins were adjusted somehow. It doesn't happen quite as often in software as it does in hardware, but you never know - just read any random week of Computer Reseller News for all the fun that comes with selling HP, Dell whiteboxes, Oracle, or the like. The positive in how REAL upgrades work is that you really arent penalized for not keeping your license up to date. I have a project that's using RB 5.5 (with a disasterous attempt under RB 2005 and quick reversion) and funny thing is - without Universal Binary targets I don't have any reason to update that project at all. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software, Inc Joining Worlds of Information Deploy True Client-Server Database Solutions Royalty Free with Valentina Developer Network http://www.paradigmasoft.com _______________________________________________ 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>
