> 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.
Daniel, I completely agree with you. Ive licensed a few items like that, and very simple stuff gets ignored. > 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". Im not sure how feasible a code escrow situation would be but the third party support program Ive been advocating would include a marketplace. That's something that Paradigma could implement or participate in. 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>
