On 8/31/01 12:52 PM, Matt Denton wrote:
> I think your main challenge will be in the
> marketing, stability and overall 'cleanness' of the product. Tribeworks
> is expen$ive but stable. Director is outrageou$ but somewhat stable...
> well, ummm... yes... mTropolis WAS expen$$ive but stable, it then fell
> dramatically in price and then finally fell from earth. Sadly we paid
> full tilt for this too. Rev is value in this light but needs bit more
> light for stability... it will then have a floodlight on it!
As a startup development firm, I have looked at Rev, iShell and REALBasic as
potential "cross-plat" (i.e., Win and Mac) development tools. I like
REALBasic because of its maturity, stability -- and the relatively low cost
of entry:
http://www.realbasic.com/store/commercial_long.html
... and the fact that commercial apps are being delivered. I like iShell a
lot because of its elegant programming environment, but it doesn't build
self-contained executables and relies heavily on QuickTime.
I _love_ Revolution because of its underpinnings in a far superior
programming language, and, frankly, the fact that it is boldly going where
no IDE has gone before ... but ...
IMHO, if Revolution matched REALBasic in pricing -- that is, the "Pro" level
of $1,000 simply went away (sorry, Runtime Revolutionaries!) -- then
Revolution could grow its user base much more quickly. It's just my $0.02,
but it's very difficult to justify high subscription costs (such as the ones
iShell and Revolution imposes) to my small company's investors. Context: a
$90 online upgrade is available from REALBasic 3 to 3.5 (my last payment to
REALBasic was in December 1999).
Tony.
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