Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

[Dan Shafer]

David....

Welcome to the Revolution from YAHR (Yet Another HyperCard Refugee).  
You're gonna love it over here.

I feel the same way you do: RunRev *could* charge a LOT more for this  
product and justify it. But it's a competitive marketplace with lots  
of free and Open Source tools and technologies, so they might not be  
more successful doing that.

DreamCard will, I suspect, play an increasing role in their revenue  
model as they bring online ways for people like you to deploy stacks  
to others who have the Player and pick up a little toll booth fee  
along the way.


On Aug 8, 2005, at 9:33 PM, David Bakody wrote:

> 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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