Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Fri Dec 9 14:27:38 EST 2005


Ken,

I too paid $999.00 and now pay $499 to upgrade each year and consider  
it a bargain. I not only doubled my salary but also started my own  
business (no profits yet ;-) ) and get to pursue this as a hobby as  
well. What a deal. AND now I get to play with Robots too.

Tom
On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

>> You have two products for two different markets.
>> We educators/hobbyists would like dreamcard to be distributed for
>> free across the world. Professionals like Richard, Chipp and Ken and
>> others are worried about keeping their competitive advantage and have
>> the tool remain expensive and relatively unknown (at the very least
>> maintain the existence of a cost of switching via the license fee and
>> time to learn).
>
> As Richard stated his position on this, I'll state mine as well.  
> I'm not
> concerned about competitive advantage at all, and won't be until  
> RunRev
> becomes as popular as JavaScript (one of my hopes!). :-)
>
> Personally I don't think of Rev as a $99 tool (even without standalone
> building capabilities). It's worth far more to me than that. Ten  
> years ago,
> I saw it as a $995 tool (which is why I bought into it then), but  
> that was
> when other tools of its ilk were as high priced. Personally I see  
> it as a
> $595 tool (or maybe $495) - expensive enough that the profit  
> margins are
> high so that more money can be spent on further development. At  
> $99, there
> is very little profit margin relative to potential support issues,  
> IMHO.
>
> But since I'm not running the company, it doesn't matter. :-)
>
> Regardless of my *feelings* on this, I would like everyone to know  
> about
> Revolution, which is why I have personally trained a handful of  
> people on
> the product, and have evangelized it to everyone I know.
>
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>
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