> Let's be realistic. If RunRev own the engine they can afford to wait until > you need a new Rev feature or some new feature of Panther breaks your apps. > > Monte
MetaCard 2.5 runs awesome under Panther. :) Heh heh heh... I feel that the odds of me, and some other MC developers, being Rev customers increase greatly if they cross grade us now without the fee. It's not like it's never been done before... Emagic did it. They said that they were no longer going to make the Windows version of Logic, and so they offered a cross-grade to the Mac version for free. OK, so that may or may not have brought some extra folks to the Mac platform, and Apple owns Emagic, but still the point stands. They were making a switch and they wanted to bring as many of their users along as possible. RunRev would certainly like to have all of the MetaCard developers convert to Revolution, but we have to basically do the equivalent of buying their small business edition to make the change. So unless you need direct e-mail support and a lot of extra database stuff, it's really not a huge bargain. I think that there will be plenty of MetaCard users who will not upgrade right now to Rev... They'll wait around and see what future versions of Rev bring, and then maybe they'll upgrade and maybe they won't, depending on what fancy new features Rev adds. And in the meantime they will continue to use MetaCard. Let's face it, if we thought Rev was better we would have already jumped over. And we don't KNOW what we're missing. We don't know how fast RunRev responds to bugs, or how fast they respond to complaints, or how willing they are to listen to user input. People who use Rev give the company high marks in those areas, but those of us who still use MetaCard have not experienced that first hand so we don't "know" it. If we switched to Rev right now, and had a chance to experience being a Rev user first hand, we might become enamored with the experience and the community and it might make us more likely to renew and give them money. Which is a valid point... I think that I, and maybe some other folks, would be more likely to update Rev in the future if I could migrate without getting charged right now, as opposed to not using the product at all. Like I said, it's a calculated gamble. RunRev is gambling that MetaCard users will pay to upgrade MetaCard and then migrate, and they realize that they're going to lose some folks (like me) at least temporarily, and maybe forever, but they're willing to take that risk. They hope that at some point in time in the future we'll decide we want to buy in, and they'll take the money then. But let's not jump to the conclusion that the next version of the Mac OS will break MetaCard. There's a decent chance that MetaCard 2.5 will run on the Mac OS for another 5 years without breaking. You never know. Maybe even longer. RunRev could have pretty much every single MetaCard developer if it wanted them right now, by offering a free cross-grade. Instead, MetaCard/RunRev is going for another $300 to make it happen. They're going to make some money and they're going to lose some people. And some people they lose will come back, and some won't. In the long run, which way is better for them? I don't know. -- :) Richard MacLemale Network Administrator J. W. Mitchell High School _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard