Alpha Software Mobile Development Tools:   Alpha Anywhere    |   Alpha TransForm subscribe to our YouTube Channel  Follow Us on LinkedIn  Follow Us on Twitter  Follow Us on Facebook
Devcon 2020 Goes Virtual! LEARN MORE >

Announcement

Collapse

The Alpha Software Forum Participation Guidelines

The Alpha Software Forum is a free forum created for Alpha Software Developer Community to ask for help, exchange ideas, and share solutions. Alpha Software strives to create an environment where all members of the community can feel safe to participate. In order to ensure the Alpha Software Forum is a place where all feel welcome, forum participants are expected to behave as follows:
  • Be professional in your conduct
  • Be kind to others
  • Be constructive when giving feedback
  • Be open to new ideas and suggestions
  • Stay on topic


Be sure all comments and threads you post are respectful. Posts that contain any of the following content will be considered a violation of your agreement as a member of the Alpha Software Forum Community and will be moderated:
  • Spam.
  • Vulgar language.
  • Quotes from private conversations without permission, including pricing and other sales related discussions.
  • Personal attacks, insults, or subtle put-downs.
  • Harassment, bullying, threatening, mocking, shaming, or deriding anyone.
  • Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory jokes and language.
  • Sexually explicit or violent material, links, or language.
  • Pirated, hacked, or copyright-infringing material.
  • Encouraging of others to engage in the above behaviors.


If a thread or post is found to contain any of the content outlined above, a moderator may choose to take one of the following actions:
  • Remove the Post or Thread - the content is removed from the forum.
  • Place the User in Moderation - all posts and new threads must be approved by a moderator before they are posted.
  • Temporarily Ban the User - user is banned from forum for a period of time.
  • Permanently Ban the User - user is permanently banned from the forum.


Moderators may also rename posts and threads if they are too generic or do not property reflect the content.

Moderators may move threads if they have been posted in the incorrect forum.

Threads/Posts questioning specific moderator decisions or actions (such as "why was a user banned?") are not allowed and will be removed.

The owners of Alpha Software Corporation (Forum Owner) reserve the right to remove, edit, move, or close any thread for any reason; or ban any forum member without notice, reason, or explanation.

Community members are encouraged to click the "Report Post" icon in the lower left of a given post if they feel the post is in violation of the rules. This will alert the Moderators to take a look.

Alpha Software Corporation may amend the guidelines from time to time and may also vary the procedures it sets out where appropriate in a particular case. Your agreement to comply with the guidelines will be deemed agreement to any changes to it.



Bonus TIPS for Successful Posting

Try a Search First
It is highly recommended that a Search be done on your topic before posting, as many questions have been answered in prior posts. As with any search engine, the shorter the search term, the more "hits" will be returned, but the more specific the search term is, the greater the relevance of those "hits". Searching for "table" might well return every message on the board while "tablesum" would greatly restrict the number of messages returned.

When you do post
First, make sure you are posting your question in the correct forum. For example, if you post an issue regarding Desktop applications on the Mobile & Browser Applications board , not only will your question not be seen by the appropriate audience, it may also be removed or relocated.

The more detail you provide about your problem or question, the more likely someone is to understand your request and be able to help. A sample database with a minimum of records (and its support files, zipped together) will make it much easier to diagnose issues with your application. Screen shots of error messages are especially helpful.

When explaining how to reproduce your problem, please be as detailed as possible. Describe every step, click-by-click and keypress-by-keypress. Otherwise when others try to duplicate your problem, they may do something slightly different and end up with different results.

A note about attachments
You may only attach one file to each message. Attachment file size is limited to 2MB. If you need to include several files, you may do so by zipping them into a single archive.

If you forgot to attach your files to your post, please do NOT create a new thread. Instead, reply to your original message and attach the file there.

When attaching screen shots, it is best to attach an image file (.BMP, .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, etc.) or a zip file of several images, as opposed to a Word document containing the screen shots. Because Word documents are prone to viruses, many message board users will not open your Word file, therefore limiting their ability to help you.

Similarly, if you are uploading a zipped archive, you should simply create a .ZIP file and not a self-extracting .EXE as many users will not run your EXE file.
See more
See less

Client Costs - do I understand this correctly?

Collapse
This topic is closed.
X
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 1
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous template Next
    #1

    Client Costs - do I understand this correctly?

    I signed up for a subscription a couple of months ago and am suddenly realizing it may have been a terrible mistake.
    I develop applications for internal use and local small businesses. I host a couple of apps on ZebraHost, one of my clients has a Server license, and a couple more are considering purchasing. I started Alpha with V10.5, upgraded to V11, and figured I might as well upgrade to V12.

    So far I've spent more money on Alpha than any other development tool I've bought in 30+ years, but the expenses have been mostly mine, not my clients. Sure, when I moved to V11, they had to upgrade their server but that was a 1 one time cost and the price was reasonable.

    As I understand it: if I upgrade my development system to V12 and do any work on their programs (in V12) they will have to upgrade their server license again.
    But now I am committing them to an eternal fee of $99/mo (or $1900 for a perpetual license with only 6 months of upgrades) and that is before I make a cent!
    Sounds like a dead end - I have totally priced myself out of my market.

    What really annoys me is that Alpha has spent my money developing a new product that I can't even use instead of fixing the bugs that I have to deal with every day or producing decent documentation.
    Alpha touts the strength of it's developer community (and I really appreciate the help I've received from many of you) but it seems to me that you are really unpaid support workers.

    I really hope that I am totally out to lunch on this so if it looks different to you then please enlighten me.
    Garry
    Tags: None
    #2
    Re: Client Costs - do I understand this correctly?

    As I understand it: if I upgrade my development system to V12 and do any work on their programs (in V12) they will have to upgrade their server license again. Yep

    What really annoys me is that Alpha has spent my money developing a new product that I can't even use instead of fixing the bugs that I have to deal with every day or producing decent documentation. Work in Progress.... see all the new V12 video's

    Alpha touts the strength of it's developer community (and I really appreciate the help I've received from many of you) but it seems to me that you are really unpaid support workers. that may change to the future time nobody knows...............................

    Comment

      #3
      Re: Client Costs - do I understand this correctly?

      The case can also be this see it positive: download V12 trial make a handsome demo for your customer within 30 days and place them for what they think and whether they need it in the near future and are willing to pay for the V12 Application Server and your developmentcost, you never know and can also run differently than you expect.

      Comment

        #4
        Re: Client Costs - do I understand this correctly?

        Originally posted by GGAllen View Post
        I signed up for a subscription a couple of months ago and am suddenly realizing it may have been a terrible mistake.
        I develop applications for internal use and local small businesses. I host a couple of apps on ZebraHost, one of my clients has a Server license, and a couple more are considering purchasing. I started Alpha with V10.5, upgraded to V11, and figured I might as well upgrade to V12.

        So far I've spent more money on Alpha than any other development tool I've bought in 30+ years, but the expenses have been mostly mine, not my clients. Sure, when I moved to V11, they had to upgrade their server but that was a 1 one time cost and the price was reasonable.

        As I understand it: if I upgrade my development system to V12 and do any work on their programs (in V12) they will have to upgrade their server license again.
        But now I am committing them to an eternal fee of $99/mo (or $1900 for a perpetual license with only 6 months of upgrades) and that is before I make a cent!
        Sounds like a dead end - I have totally priced myself out of my market.

        Garry
        Gary -- here is a document that lays out the pricing -

        http://alphaanywhere.blogspot.com/20...for-alpha.html

        you will see that there many options at various price points and even perpetual licenses come with 12 months of upgrades and updates - not 6 months.

        With Alpha Five v12 (Alpha Anywhere) - you have very potent web and mobile capabilities that should put in a very strong competitive position in the market. Try building systems like this http://vimeo.com/69909140 in anything like the development speed of Alpha Five v12
        Richard Rabins
        Co Chairman
        Alpha Software

        Comment

        Previous template Next
        Working...
        X