It seems to me that a lot of developers might prefer to buy from just a handful of "established" large 3rd pty vendors. There is always the worry of support issues when designing in some 3rd party plugin that comes from someone that doesn't actually make much money from their add- on, irrespective of how good or useful that add-on is. The problem is that such vendors are always going to have other jobs/contracts etc to support them, which in turn means that little time is available for maintaining and improving the plugin.
With this in mind I wonder if any of the bigger players ( I am thinking Einhugur, Monkeybread, Valentina - even RS themselves possibly ) might want to get together with smaller vendors to - not only provide a bigger sales outlet - but also to provide some sort of licensed "escrow" on the source code - so that in the event of a small vendor no longer being able to maintain and support their plugin, that software could then be passed over to and supported by the larger outfit and giving users of the plugin more "peace of mind". On 7/12/06 01:21, "Lynn Fredricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I asked for an open 3rd party support program much like one Ive >>> developed for another company - this brought about an >> accusation that >>> I was promoting a competitor at REAL's expense. >> >> SIGH >> >> This kind of attitude from RS is another reason to wonder if >> it is worth developing any kind of third-party product in the >> REALbasic space. >> >> gloomy in Perth > > I hope its not a lesson that has to be learned by third party vendors giving > up or diverting customers to other solutions. > > There have been plenty of Valentina for Director users that have asked us > about alternatives - because Valentina works with so many platforms: RB, > Revolution, Director, COM, .net, Cocoa, etc - the data and a lot of logic > doesn't need to be touched really. Despite all else, we've made an extra > effort to support REALbasic - Valentina 2.5 (shortly to be released) has an > RB Bindings Framework. Those sorts of touches not only make it more > attractive to RB users but also for switchers from other tools. > > Failure of RS to act, we are open to working with other RB 3rd party > developers on bundles and cross-marketing. > > 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>
