�To those who still want to beat a dead horse regarding the price, I have one sincere and heartfelt comment - piss off!�
Dave Jampole, in Thank You All posting.
'To those who still want to beat a dead horse regarding the price' �Ya know - there are some folks who just don't get it, LOL. Their loss!�
Stephan Williams, In Thank You All posting.
In defense of horse beaters:
Dave, there is something I�d like to say to you about your �sincere and heartfelt comment,� but whereas �piss off� is apparently OK on this board, the words I would have for you would be�or certainly should be�bleeped. So use your imagination.
Stephan, it isn�t nice to imply that those you disagree with are just stupid or in some other way dim witted. But at least you were half way civil.
Quite obviously Alpha is going down a new strategy road, but what mystifies me is how those who profess to �get it� even know the details of the new strategy, much less that it will turn out to be in the best interests of Alpha Software. My concern is NOT what V5 is going to cost me, it�s whether or not the pricing and other parts of the new strategy are going to allow Alpha to be viable in the future.
Other than pricing (which was just speculation a week ago) what else do you all know about a presumed new strategy that the rest of us don�t know? Probably nothing. My own wild guess would be that instead of primarily going after new and decidedly novice database users (which interestingly is probably what most of us started out as) the primary target audience is now going to be developers of one sort or another. Again, that�s just a wild guess. But if I am right, my possibly minority opinion is that of the new A5 features only the power of Xdialog makes this a reasonable proposition and one that would justify the higher price. Because I�ve seen almost nothing on this board to indicate that those who �get it� have any familiarity with the real power of Xdialog, I just don�t understand what it is that you so vehemently �get.� In any case, I�d wager that most of you who �get it� would not have gotten Alpha Five in the first place had the price been what we are now looking at. Ponder that for half a minute.
Now, having said all this, am I going to upgrade at the new prices? Yes. Do I think Alpha Five V5 is worth the new price? For me, yes. But is it clear to me that whatever the rest of the new strategy is that it will work? Not at all, and that is what I was concerned about in regard to the pricing. It might help to see a statement of the new strategy. Surely it�s something more than the old canard Dave alludes to that the way to sell lots of something is to price it high. At least I hope so.
Ray Lyons
Dave Jampole, in Thank You All posting.
'To those who still want to beat a dead horse regarding the price' �Ya know - there are some folks who just don't get it, LOL. Their loss!�
Stephan Williams, In Thank You All posting.
In defense of horse beaters:
Dave, there is something I�d like to say to you about your �sincere and heartfelt comment,� but whereas �piss off� is apparently OK on this board, the words I would have for you would be�or certainly should be�bleeped. So use your imagination.
Stephan, it isn�t nice to imply that those you disagree with are just stupid or in some other way dim witted. But at least you were half way civil.
Quite obviously Alpha is going down a new strategy road, but what mystifies me is how those who profess to �get it� even know the details of the new strategy, much less that it will turn out to be in the best interests of Alpha Software. My concern is NOT what V5 is going to cost me, it�s whether or not the pricing and other parts of the new strategy are going to allow Alpha to be viable in the future.
Other than pricing (which was just speculation a week ago) what else do you all know about a presumed new strategy that the rest of us don�t know? Probably nothing. My own wild guess would be that instead of primarily going after new and decidedly novice database users (which interestingly is probably what most of us started out as) the primary target audience is now going to be developers of one sort or another. Again, that�s just a wild guess. But if I am right, my possibly minority opinion is that of the new A5 features only the power of Xdialog makes this a reasonable proposition and one that would justify the higher price. Because I�ve seen almost nothing on this board to indicate that those who �get it� have any familiarity with the real power of Xdialog, I just don�t understand what it is that you so vehemently �get.� In any case, I�d wager that most of you who �get it� would not have gotten Alpha Five in the first place had the price been what we are now looking at. Ponder that for half a minute.
Now, having said all this, am I going to upgrade at the new prices? Yes. Do I think Alpha Five V5 is worth the new price? For me, yes. But is it clear to me that whatever the rest of the new strategy is that it will work? Not at all, and that is what I was concerned about in regard to the pricing. It might help to see a statement of the new strategy. Surely it�s something more than the old canard Dave alludes to that the way to sell lots of something is to price it high. At least I hope so.
Ray Lyons
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