Hi Phil: With regard to the website, it's not there because we just recently made the decision. The site will be updated soon to reflect the new product. The primary reason for not releasing Link/World or Link/Pro has to do with server loading. REBOL/Serve was designed to handle hundreds of users, not hundreds of thousands of users. It was created to be used by small to medium sized organizations and companies. In addition, we do not have the staff to deal with the volume of administrative issues that would come up (e.g. "I forgot my password," etc.) Note that Link/World and Link/Pro would only connect to REBOL Technologies' servers. To use Link for your own organization, you would need to buy Express. View can provide many of the same benefits of developer support by using a network of Reb sites. This also makes it easier for developers to add their own content and scripts to the network. The View desktop will be available in the View 1.1 product release. View 1.0 simply includes the View and VID functions. View/Pro 1.0 adds to it the shell, library, and encryption modules. It does not include database access modules, which will continue to be provided only in REBOL/Command. -Carl -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Philip Bevan Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 4:01 PM To: Rebol Ally ML Subject: [ALLY] Re: [REBOL] About View HI list, I'm a little confused .... this statement does not agree with the website (which I now assume is incorrect) .... Can someone tell us more about the difference between View and Link? I would certainly be buying either Rebol/View/Pro or Rebol/Link/Pro. (For those of thus that havent been beta testing Link) Would the price or Rebol/View/Pro be similar to Rebol/Link/Pro ?? Is there anything in View that wouldnt be in Link? (Like drawing functions). Cheers Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Sassenrath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:30 AM Subject: [REBOL] About View > About REBOL/View... funny that you ask, because: > > The REBOL team held a three hour meeting yesterday to discuss REBOL/View and its future. We came up with an excellent solution that provides a free version of View that is upgradable to a professional version that includes a few additional components, such as command shell, library access, and encryption. > > The demand for such a product seems high. We get a lot of email from users who want it. Of course, our hope is that all of you will want to buy the View/Pro product. And, that you would convince your friends, companies, comrades, and neighbors to buy it too. We need that to happen! Tell everyone. > > I should point out that REBOL/View is not REBOL/Link. There would be no auto-sync, Serve side, desktop, installer, etc. But, it does provide a solid 1.0 for you to rely on. It would be official... and no more expiration woes. > > Unfortunately, I cannot provide more detail at this time. We are still planning it out. However, if the decision is to proceed, we would release View/Pro 1.0 in less than a week. > > Please let us know your thoughts. > > REBOL as always, > > -Carl > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes. -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
