On Wed, July 26, 2006 08:06, Kim Kohen wrote: > > I take you point, but one of the carrots of moving to RB was the > royalty free distribution which would allow better value for end > users. Actually the scenario I described is a real pain - nice cheap > product which suddenly balloons in price for one extra user. Without > wanting to complicate the licensing too much, it would be nice to > have a way of accommodating it. >
Here, here! At REAL World 2006 I had a long chat with Geoff Perlman about the possible distribution and pricing model for REAL SQL Server, and hoped I'd got my point across, but it seems not (Geoff couldn't comment much at the time as they had not decided on a pricing strategy back then). I basically stressed that for REAL SQL Server to be of any use and bring something new to the table, it needs to be easy to bundle with an application and cost very little per user. The developer should swallow the costs of the database within their own license fee so that they can charge per user (as they will be the ones having to support the application). I had an idea for a low cost small to medium sized multi-user database application that would work well with REAL SQL Server as a very low maintenance database backend. But I would want to sell licences at $49 - $79 per user, I couldn't do that if the database is going to cost $100 per user! Ah well, my application idea probably wasn't going to work anyway, guess I'll have to try something else! -- Ian M. Jones ________________________________________ IMiJ Software http://www.imijsoft.com http://www.ianmjones.net (blog) _______________________________________________ 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>
