Rev 2.02/New pricing and New PRINTED Revolution Docs

[David Kwinter]

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Who didn't go to the book store in the
early days of their computing lives? Has anyone noticed how many Java books
there are? RunRev absolutely has got to get a book w/CD in every big box
book store. Have REVOLUTION printed proudly on the spine and throw an
evaluation edition w/user contributions on the CD.

WRT the new pricing, it seems reasonable, but the studio edition makes Rev
seem a little more reliable & predictable than it is. Even the best
programmers need to debug & reformat their apps natively on each platform
and having additional express licenses is really awkward.

IMHO when your product's key feature is cross-platform development,
isolating platforms on the beginner licenses is not the way to go. Scrap the
10-liner starter kit for the 30 day evaluation. And keep the SBE and
professional as they were.


Personally, I'm sticking with 1.1.1 for its beautifully tabbed properties
palette : )  until Rev supports SSH (I heard in v2.5 a while back), then
I'll upgrade.

David Kwinter


On 7/17/03 7:55 AM, "Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com"
<Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com> wrote:

> Ok, here goes my 2 cents worth:
> 
> If RunRev seriously sees the need to make changes to bring in "new
> business", newbie programmers are constantly checking out the programming
> section of major book stores. In 199x, I was seeking a language that I
> could understand without taking tech school courses in c++ or perl, etc.
> That is where I first learned of the existence of HyperCard (Brady was the
> author), and I bought these books. The nice thing about this was the
> attached cd that was chock-full of example scripts. My point is this:
> RunRev could simply provide e-Documentation with ALL variations of their
> licenses, but in addition to this, put this wonderful bundle of books ON
> THE SHELVES for would-be programmers to find. Including an evaluation
> version and some examples on a cd wouldn't be a bad idea either. It's
> difficult to imagine, but there are people who aren't online yet.
> 
> Roger Eller
> roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
> 
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