RE: The Cost of RT?
Ken
Thank you for picking up on my comments. The point I was trying to make was that we consider that we are all little Rolls Royce builders and we dont want to purchase a Ford plant to develope our applications. The new version will only be able to run on one machine as it will be registered to just that machine. Most of us, I beleive who run small offices/networks will now need to buy the development kit and a RT licence to cover the number of nodes. This is going to prove a very expensive upgrade when all the credit they have is from the 4.5 and the 4.5 RT. Not all of us are selling our apps to recover the RT licence and those that are can play around all day with how the cost can be split amoungst end users. I am not sugesting that a seperate price be charged for the app and the RT but because you are making a tailor made app you dont know if there are going to be other customers, unless you are established in that market. So the first customer will have to pay for the RT and IF you then sell other apps you can make a little extra profit by reselling the RT, but that is only IF. In the mean time the RT should not be priced to such an extent that present Alpha users will have to consider very hard about an upgrade, especially when they have got a system that is doing what they want at the moment. The price structure with 4 and 4.5 seems to of satisfied everybody, to jump them up because a few developers can afford to pass it on to their clients will leave a bad tast in the mouth of many Alpha users. If the price is too high then all the hard work Selwyn and crew have done will go out the window. I would pay the $300 for the Developers Kit and the extra $500 for RT 1-5 nodes but that would be my limit as a small time user and hopefully developer, anthing more than that and I think I will have to stick with my 4.5.
Keith Hubert
London.
Ken
Thank you for picking up on my comments. The point I was trying to make was that we consider that we are all little Rolls Royce builders and we dont want to purchase a Ford plant to develope our applications. The new version will only be able to run on one machine as it will be registered to just that machine. Most of us, I beleive who run small offices/networks will now need to buy the development kit and a RT licence to cover the number of nodes. This is going to prove a very expensive upgrade when all the credit they have is from the 4.5 and the 4.5 RT. Not all of us are selling our apps to recover the RT licence and those that are can play around all day with how the cost can be split amoungst end users. I am not sugesting that a seperate price be charged for the app and the RT but because you are making a tailor made app you dont know if there are going to be other customers, unless you are established in that market. So the first customer will have to pay for the RT and IF you then sell other apps you can make a little extra profit by reselling the RT, but that is only IF. In the mean time the RT should not be priced to such an extent that present Alpha users will have to consider very hard about an upgrade, especially when they have got a system that is doing what they want at the moment. The price structure with 4 and 4.5 seems to of satisfied everybody, to jump them up because a few developers can afford to pass it on to their clients will leave a bad tast in the mouth of many Alpha users. If the price is too high then all the hard work Selwyn and crew have done will go out the window. I would pay the $300 for the Developers Kit and the extra $500 for RT 1-5 nodes but that would be my limit as a small time user and hopefully developer, anthing more than that and I think I will have to stick with my 4.5.
Keith Hubert
London.
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