Rev 2.02/New pricing

[Bill Vlahos]

Duane,

No problem. Your existing free edition of Revolution version 2 will 
continue to work forever! You can complete your project and distribute 
it without any problems.

If you want to upgrade to 2.1 and can afford the $75 get the new 
Express version on sale before the end of next month. You won't have 
the 10 line limit of your current free version and will be able to help 
save your tribe's language on your Mac and even be able to freely 
distribute the application to other Mac users.

As far as Windows you could do the following...
1. You were hoping to scrape up $299 for the previous SBE version. That 
is the same as 1 Mac + 1 Windows Express versions at list price. The 
current sale price makes it even cheaper. All you would have to do is 
find someone with a Windows computer you can install Revolution Express 
on, copy over your finished stack and build it on the PC.

2. Alternatively you could partner up with a Windows purchaser of the 
Express version and work together and each build the finished 
standalones for distribution.

3. If your application was successful enough you could upgrade the 
Express version to the Studio version. I don't believe RunRev has 
posted the upgrade prices but they have been pretty close to just the 
cost differences of the various versions with previous versions. If you 
can swing this before the end of August then the Studio version will be 
$100 cheaper than what the SBE version ever was. You would be able to 
build distributions for all of the platforms from your Mac.

Bill Vlahos


On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 06:21  PM, Duane Poncy wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:55:23 -0400, Wilhelm Sanke 
> <sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de>:
>
> This is another late response to the new pricing scheme. As a user of 
> the "Free Edition" I realize I don't have much standing to complain 
> about the new pricing, but it does bring up a couple of questions for 
> me.
>
> I am more than a hobbyist, but I am not a professional programmer. I 
> have been working on a Cherokee dictionary for some months now. The 
> hundred plus hours I have put into this dictionary is gratis. I am 
> very low income, and and have not been able to afford the SBE. I 
> expect to have this project ready for use in a few months, and will 
> distribute if for free, because it is important to me to help save my 
> tribe's language.
>
> For this software to continue to be useful, I need cross-platform 
> capability. Most education people and many writers, like me, use 
> MacIntosh, but the majority of people who will use this dictionary are 
> PC users. I have been thinking that if it went well, I could maybe 
> scrape together enough to buy the SBE. With the new pricing there is 
> no way I can afford to buy into cross-platform capability.
>
> I would like to continue to build Cherokee lanquage learning tools, 
> but I guess I will have to find some other tool than Revolution. Or I 
> will have to continue to use Revolution 2.0 free edition.
>
> I don't know if there are others out there like me, and I know a 
> company can't make decisions based on just a few users, but, 
> nevertheless, I am truly disappointed.
>
>
> Duane Poncy
>
> visit Elohi Gadugi: poetry, software,
> Cherokee culture and Native American rights.
> http://dsaoregon.igc.org/tsalagi/
>
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