Rev 2.02/New pricing

[Bill Vlahos]

I'm going to chime in that I also think the new pricing model is great. 
It is essentially what a number of us were asking for awhile ago.

To me the big news is the Express version. This becomes THE personal 
productivity tool for casual programers to write software for 
themselves. This joins a distinguished list of development environments 
(Applesoft Basic, MS DOS Basic, and HyperCard) but is available to 
everyone on any platform. This is incredible! I always thought the 
right price point should be in the $100 to $150 range and it is. These 
casual programmers likely will only develop on one platform and since 
it is for themselves, they won't care (at least initially) about 
building for other platforms.

Of course the beauty of this plan is that anyone who buys the Express 
version and wants to expand to other platforms can do so easily and 
cheaply by either upgrading to the Studio version or buying the Express 
version for the other platform(s) they want. Another option would be to 
collaborate with someone else who has a different platform and work 
together to build for multiple platforms. I think this is a win-win 
situation. The RunRev folks have sold software for multiple platforms 
to multiple people and the programmers can help each other which is 
also a good idea.

One of the other things I like about this plan is that upgrades to 
Studio and Enterprise version are easy to understand and have a clear 
set of benefits. If someone is really interested in doing more with 
Revolution they can and the prices are reasonable.

These intro prices are astounding and should become an impulse buy for 
a lot of people.

There are a few details the RunRev folks will need to clarify but I 
think this is terrific.

Viva la Revolution
Bill Vlahos