Re: Recent Press Release: Developer/2000 Release 1.2

sstryker@sover.net (Stew Stryker) wrote: >Wow, at almost $4k per developer, this should be SOME HOT development tool. We spent the summer negotiating with CA over their OpenROAD pricing, and along the way we also spoke to Oracle about Developer/2000. For a variety of reasons we chose OpenROAD, but we did feel that Oracle's pricing strategy made more sense than CA's, because Oracle does not charge for runtime use of the product. You pay up front for the developer package, and then you can distribute your applications to as many users as you want for free. (You pay separately for the database server, but this would be true in most cases anyway). This is a great marketing strategy, because once a customer buys into the developer package, he/she will want to use it for as many applications as possible. The more Developer/2000 applications you find out on people's desks, the more exposure the product has to other potential customers. In contrast, CA charges a much lower price per developer, but charges again for each runtime version of the product, which has the effect of discouraging customers from distributing OpenROAD apps. How does PowerSoft handle this? Elena M Yatzeck Graduate School of Business University of Chicago