LiveCode 4.5 License model

[Richmond]

  On 09/21/2010 10:01 PM, Mark Stuart wrote:
> on Tue Sep 21 12:11:10 CDT 2010, Neal Campbell wrote:
>
>>> Just for comparison, my annual SA price for RADStudio from Embarcadero
> is
> $1320.
> <<
>
> Yes, but look at the tool you are getting from Embarcadero. A complete
> suite of tools to build an Enterprise level application.
> With that, I don't think LiveCode 4.5 even comes close to its tool set.
>
> I use VB6 from time to time, and again LiveCode 4.5 doesn't even comes
> close to it, and the product was stopped several years ago.
>
> I guess I get frustrated/annoyed if I were to build the same application
> in revStudio and also in VB6, the latter is so much easier to build a
> richer desktop application. I've tried to build the same
> objects/components in revStudio as are already in VB6.

Well; it's all a matter of taste really. Having spent about 6 months
with VB6 I would use RunRev any time; I found Visual Basic
awful.

But then I was probably trying to develop something entirely different 
from what you had in mind.

I find these comparisons a bit invidious.

> I've spent hours
> trying to do this, and in the end give up, because the objects in
> revStudio are not complete. Especially trying different property
> settings, they come up short. They don't work/set properly. Yes, I've
> tried all sorts of renditions of the settings.
>
> I will be revisiting my license with LiveCode.
>
> Regards,
> Mark Stuart
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