Re: Runtime License Registration and Risk Management
I care for a couple of reasons.
First, the success of Alpha Five may well hinge in no small part on their licensing scheme. I started to go into this in more depth but for now I will leave it at that. Suffice it to say if you extend this in a number of ways it becomes clear just how much this could impact Alpha Five users.
Second, I would like to be able to go beyond our company's walls and develop applications for others either for our company, with another company, or independently. I've actually created a few programs for our company that we have never deployed in part because of support concerns. Some of these we were even planning to distribute to our customers for no charge. That's really going to be difficult if we have to work out payment and licensing for each location. On a related note, I have paid for Alpha Five (v5, v6, v7 and now Enterprise v8 w/ 5-user Runtime Plus) out of my own pocket. I have gladly done so as I've enjoyed working with it, hoping for certain future changes and dreaming about the possibilities. (On a related note, I have always been very appreciative of the special discounted pricing Alpha Five has made available.)
Are my wishes and/or needs a reason to reconsider Alpha Five licensing? No, not really. But I believe the variety of scenarios that could be run based upon the current proposed scheme in combination with the cost of availabile substitutes should be taken into consideration. I'm just not convinced that the proposed pricing scheme for v9 will result in the desired outcomes for Alpha Five.
Tom
I care for a couple of reasons.
First, the success of Alpha Five may well hinge in no small part on their licensing scheme. I started to go into this in more depth but for now I will leave it at that. Suffice it to say if you extend this in a number of ways it becomes clear just how much this could impact Alpha Five users.
Second, I would like to be able to go beyond our company's walls and develop applications for others either for our company, with another company, or independently. I've actually created a few programs for our company that we have never deployed in part because of support concerns. Some of these we were even planning to distribute to our customers for no charge. That's really going to be difficult if we have to work out payment and licensing for each location. On a related note, I have paid for Alpha Five (v5, v6, v7 and now Enterprise v8 w/ 5-user Runtime Plus) out of my own pocket. I have gladly done so as I've enjoyed working with it, hoping for certain future changes and dreaming about the possibilities. (On a related note, I have always been very appreciative of the special discounted pricing Alpha Five has made available.)
Are my wishes and/or needs a reason to reconsider Alpha Five licensing? No, not really. But I believe the variety of scenarios that could be run based upon the current proposed scheme in combination with the cost of availabile substitutes should be taken into consideration. I'm just not convinced that the proposed pricing scheme for v9 will result in the desired outcomes for Alpha Five.
Tom
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