Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

[David Bakody]

Thanks for the help.  It looks like this group ended up making another sale.

The only thing I don't quite get is how this company can make any money 
on a product that in some ways should cost far more.  I'm not 
complaining, but the revenue stream for such a product can't be anything 
to get excited about as the number of users I suspect is still quite 
small, unless it's the loss leader and leads to eventual Revolution or 
Enterprise licenses.  Oh well.  I'll leave that to the bean counters at 
Runtime Revolution LTD.

Bill Vlahos wrote:

> David,
>
> Welcome to the Revolution.
>
> I believe you are pretty much the exact market for DreamCard. It 
> should do nicely for you.
>
> Being able to create standalone applications is great and if you 
> decide you want to be able to do that later you can simply upgrade 
> then. There are some other advantages to Revolution but not for the 
> uses you describe.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Bill Vlahos
>
> On Aug 8, 2005, at 6:19 PM, David Bakody wrote:
>
>> Hello to this amazing group:
>>
>> I stumbled onto Dreamcard after linking to a forum posting regarding 
>> a review of the most recent release of RealBASIC on OSNews.  One 
>> thing led to another and now here I am.
>> I've been playing with the eval of Dreamcard and am amazed yet 
>> confused.  On the one hand, I felt like waxing nostalgic for my old 
>> Hypercard days back in the late 1980's, so much so that I fired up an 
>> old Quadra 650 (still runs after all these years) and started toying 
>> around with Hypercard again to help jog my memory and gain a better 
>> understanding of Dreamcard.  In so many ways I lament the things 
>> Apple has discarded (OpenDoc, Hypercard, GameSprockets, to name just 
>> a few...).
>>
>> I feel I should note that not only did I search the archives before 
>> asking a question, I downloaded and imported the ENTIRE archives into 
>> Thunderbird as the archives are THAT good.  The answers I found 
>> kinda-sorta answered my question, but I remain a bit unclear...
>>
>> Here's my question:
>> The only difference I can find between Dreamcard and Revolution is 
>> that the latter can produce standalone apps, whereas the former 
>> requires a player.  Assuming I merely want to develop applications 
>> for myself that relate to my practice of real estate / law / etc, is 
>> Dreamcard sufficient?  These will be modest applications (lead 
>> generation / tracking, client management, simple databases, case 
>> management, etc).  Likewise, I envision sharing some of my work 
>> product with my peers to run on their own respective workstations 
>> (non-commercial, just plain old sharing and love), but I am a bit 
>> concerned as to whether or not the "player" will permit me to share 
>> my work in a usable manner.  If indeed it does - Dreamcard is an 
>> incredible deal.
>>
>> Apologies in advance if this question has been asked a million times.
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