More great news, Karl! Thanks very much for your reply!
Jim
--On Monday, December 11, 2000 12:00 AM +0100 Karl Avedal
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Jim (and everyone else),
>
> Thanks!
>
> The only change that is planned is the addition of a seperate support
> license for the ones demanding more support. There's no date set for when
> this will be available yet.
>
> We do not plan any changes to the normal license, neither in cost nor
> terms. And it will still be free for developers and for non-commercial
> use.
>
> Regards,
> Karl Avedal
>
> Jim Archer wrote:
>
>> Karl, sounds like great news. Congrats!
>>
>> I'm wondering if any major changes in licensing or pricing policy are
>> coming within the next several or six months?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> --On Thursday, December 07, 2000 1:20 PM +0100 Karl Avedal
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I thought it was time for some explanation on our silence.
>> >
>> > Alot of things are happening structually right now to the company. The
>> > biggest news is probably that the company is no longer Evermind, but is
>> > now called Ironflare AB, which is a new limited corporation. The owners
>> > are the same so it is not a takeover or anything like that, but the new
>> > company form will enable us to expand faster than the old company. We
>> > will announce this officially within a few weeks.
>> >
>> > This will lead to a few things:
>> >
>> > 1. The company will become more visible, with a company website and
>> > information and not just a product website with product information.
>> >
>> > 2. The resources of the company will increase. The problem lately has
>> > been that non-development takes more and more time as we get more
>> > customers. As other resources get available that do more of the
>> > business, the core team will be able to focus more on development and
>> > bug-fixing.
>> >
>> > 3. There might still be some time of confusion left. The company
>> > structure is not the only change we're going through. The expansion is
>> > just starting and as it goes on, resources will initially be spent more
>> > on building the organization and hiring the right people than would be
>> > necessary if we didn't make the expansion. Without the expansion we
>> > would however be lost eventually as we would hit a brick wall without
>> > the necessary resources.
>> >
>> > I will try to keep you posted on these developments and I want to
>> > reassure you that we are not gone, but quite the opposite, we are
>> > making a move to become more aggressive in the future, but it has made
>> > us less visible for some time and has hurt the product development and
>> > release cycle, and it is likely to do so from time to time as we go
>> > ahead. A new release with a few fixes shouldn't be far away now though.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Karl Avedal
>> >
>
