> <rant> Can I please have my old relational database model > back? Can I please have Visual Foxpro? Or 4D? Or ANYTHING > ELSE but this unwieldy, blood sucking, "the more money you > make the more you have to give us" kind of database model we > call SQL? We've been sold out, lads! SOLD OUT!!! </rant>
Business models are usually the product of competitors colliding against each other until, like stones on a beach, they start to resemble each other. Some are truly baffling. Here's an example - In the real time 3D video market (machinanima), almost all players have moved from a standard tool maker type business model to a "service" model or, attach provisions to their software use to make it impossible to ship products in their native format without paying them some form of royalty OR requiring you to sell through their online stores. I think this is a result of their own initial mismarketing and immaturity of the market place in the first few years of their appearance, but all seem to have locked down their tools into a walled garden model. But the number of competitors is very few, and they all seem to have gone the same direction of trying to extract use type fees. Its sort of like a cartel, without the 10 galleon hats and cigars, but with the soul eating. We have sort of an inverse situation, because the market for databases is extremely mature, yet no single DB is king and can do everything (and why there are many smaller, less expensive or free alternatives prospering). The big guys can often get as "walled garden" as they like because they often have death grips on their soul eaten customers. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode