RE: Ideas for trial versions

2007-10-25 Thread Graham Brown (CompSYS)
I had to make the system read only after so many days. Never found out what the legal precedent was for this though. Graham -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael J. Babcock, MCP Sent: 25 October 2007 15:16 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re

Re: Ideas for trial versions

2007-10-25 Thread Michael J. Babcock, MCP
On Thu, October 25, 2007 10:01 am, Alan Bourke wrote: > Yes that's what I meant. > > > How about increasing the transparency of your forms depending on days > past the trial expiration? :) > LOL! I love it! ;-) ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.c

RE: Ideas for trial versions

2007-10-25 Thread Michael J. Babcock, MCP
On Thu, October 25, 2007 10:02 am, David Crooks wrote: > Most products allow for a 30 day money back guarantee so why not do the > same? The commercial product I was involved with only allowed for 10 > records to be added to the database. Any more than that then they have to > pay, which did happ

Re: Ideas for trial versions

2007-10-25 Thread Alan Bourke
Michael J. Babcock, MCP wrote: > I do limit the main table's record count so that a person can only enter > 'n' jobs into the database, and while that works, I was just considering > other simple ideas that could be set on startup in the main program and > never had to be worried about anywhere els

RE: Ideas for trial versions

2007-10-25 Thread David Crooks
?) later called us to buy it because they wanted to add more data. David L. Crooks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael J. Babcock, MCP Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:03 AM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Ideas for trial versions

Re: Ideas for trial versions

2007-10-25 Thread Michael J. Babcock, MCP
On Thu, October 25, 2007 9:50 am, Alan Bourke wrote: > Limit the records returned by queries to 10% of the table size? > I don't like that because that produces incorrect results, if I understand you correctly. I do limit the main table's record count so that a person can only enter 'n' jobs int

Re: Ideas for trial versions

2007-10-25 Thread Alan Bourke
Limit the records returned by queries to 10% of the table size? ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searcha

Ideas for trial versions

2007-10-25 Thread Michael J. Babcock, MCP
Rather than messing around with dates, why not use some of the SET commands to throttle down performance? I was looking at SET OPTIMIZE and thought that perhaps that was an easy way to deter folks from using a TRIAL version forever. I don't like the idea of time bombs and was thinking of alternat