METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

[Shari]

>Just went over to the RunRev site and saw this headline:
>
>   "Runtime Aquires MetaCard Technology"
>
>You can read all about it here:
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>    http://www.runrev.com/metacardpr.html
>
>How does everyone feel about this? I can see good and not-so-good things
>(depending on how RunRev acts on this)...
>
>Your thoughts?
>
>Ken Ray
>Sons of Thunder Software

I do not feel good about this.  I tried Rev and MC before choosing 
MC.  Rev was buggy as the dickens, and it quit so often, that I had 
to copy a script to a text file *every single time I made a change to 
the script* to prevent losing work.  I finally decided it just wasn't 
worth it, and MC was stable, so I chose MC.

I migrated to MC from Hypercard about a year and a half ago, knowing 
that Scott had been supporting this product and company for 10 years. 
I felt confident I could rely on the future of Metacard.

This change scares me.  It's hard enough to put out a program that is 
bug-free, from your own code.  Trouble with the development 
environment is a big-bad.  Perhaps they've worked the bugs out since 
I tried it.  I do not know.  But I know this could have a very bad 
impact on the future of my company.  I do not want more change in the 
compiler, unless it is to add features (features, not fluff, not ease 
of use).  I do not want Metacard to suddenly have all the RunRev 
addons that made it buggy when I tried it.  I cannot afford that.  My 
company is finally starting to move up in the world.  It's been a lot 
of work and a lot of sacrifice.

What happens to Metacard, impacts those who rely on it for their 
bread and butter.  I love xTalk languages.  And was hoping/expecting 
that Scott/Metacard would be around a long time so that I could use 
it as my foundation.

This change scares the dickens out of me.

Shari C
Gypsy King Software
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