[discussion] Schema of Valentina server licensing

[Charles Yeomans]

On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 06:32 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> on 6/20/03 2:42, Charles Yeomans at yeomans at desuetude.com wrote:
>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> So you still think that $300 per year is a
>>> bad deal for all these benefits?
>>>
>>
>> Except for what you've told us recently, we don't know what the
>> benefits are. Certainly what you say sounds good.  But, who is to say
>> that these benefits won't change in the future?  So what I would need
>> to do is to factor my application so that I can change out VServer for
>> another embedded client-server database, in case the subscription deal
>> does change.  That's the hidden cost of buying into such a 
>> subscription.
>
> And later
>
>> No.  Because I don't know how much the subscription fee will be in the
>> future.  I've certainly seen Windows developer friends of mine get
>> screwed when their $300 license jumps to $2500 + runtime fees.  So, as
>> I noted in another message, prudence suggests that I any application I
>> write using VServer would need to be designed so that I can change db
>> engines as easily as possible -- and that may or may not be so easy to
>
> I am sure you can NOT expect from us such steps :-)
> Yes Lynn?

In fact I don't expect it from you.  But, as I said, who knows what the 
future holds?  Perhaps Larry Ellison will make you an offer you can't 
refuse.

>
> In any case changes in prices / license always affect only future 
> versions.
> Correct?

It's not clear what this would mean in the context of a subscription 
model, especially one of the sort proposed.

Charles Yeomans