Thank you for your comments David. Well, it will inspire those same developers who are marketing their own Windows Perl versions with graphical debuggers and they are willing to help with the setup. But then I would have to use the built in http server and yet another program to learn and tweak.
I will likely upgrade, I don't have time to fiddle with an alternative - I did get an offer of a $50 discount as a long time customer. I guess this is what happens when a small startup goes public and the bean counters take over. At 01:28 PM 24/08/2010, David Kaufman wrote: >Hi Spencer, > >Perhaps I reacted a bit too harshly. I'm actually a happy long-time >user and even a huge *fan* of ActiveState. It's just that, as a loyal >customer, I feel burned. I feel "fired" in fact: > > 2007-03-21 $49.95 > PDK Deployment Tools 7 Upgrade - SKU: pdkdt_upgrade_prod_as09 > > 2004-04-11 $59.95 > PDK Deployment Tools 6 Upgrade - SKU: pdkdt_upgrade_prod_as09 > > 2004-01-23 $79.95 > Perl Dev Kit 5 Upgrade - SKU: PDKU > > 2002-04-02 $79.95 > Perl Dev Kit 4 Full - SKU: PDK > > 1999-12-09 $0.00 > Perl Dev Kit 1 (Beta/Promo?) - SKU: PDK > > 1998-04-02 $0.00 > Perl Debugger 1 (Beta/Promo?) - SKU: perlde_new_prod_as09 > >As you can see (they do keep good records...) no, I have not ever paid >over $100 dollars for PDK up until now, and having fallen behind a >version or two, I apparently don't qualify for even the $150 upgrade >price! > >To remain an PDK user and an ActiveState customer, they're forcing me to >pony up $295. > >Version 7: fifty dollars. >Version 9: three hundred. > >Seriously? There is no marketing in the world that will convince me >that it's six times as good, six times as bug free, or six times more >fun to use. I know this is the way software is sold in Redmond, but >even they know they will surely lose the share of the market for whom >they increase the cost of their product 600%, right? I mean, they're >surely not dumb. > >The only reason I can think of is that they don't want us. They >increased the price that much for me because either > >a) I'm a statistical anomaly, such an infinitesimal percentage of their >installed user base that they don't care about losing me, > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
