>>It appears to be a Java RAD development platform more or less. It may actually be really cool - but I haven't had time to really research or test it.
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>Servoy does appear to do very cool things but they charge for developer licenses AND runtime distribution licenses. It gets obscenely expensive very quickly.

Hi Brandon,

I just had a conversation with Servoy and it's not actually that expensive.

For a single developer like me I have these options:

1. Developer Tool which includes Application Server and IDE - US$849 per year plus 24% annual licence renewal (you don't have to pay the annual licence, you just won't get updates if you don't). I don't know why anyoene would buy this though.

2. Servoy Alliance Network (SAN) which includes 2 developer licences and 5 client licences for testing - $479 per year. This also gives you 20% discount on client licences and other benefits.

Client licences start at $349 per user and are perpetual. This scales down the more licences you buy. If you want updates you pay 24% of the total licence cost.

So if I were to join the SAN and sell a product to a client with 5 users it would cost me $479 for the initial licence and then $1396 (349 * 5 * .8), totalling $1875. If the product is as good as they say it is and I save 37.5 hours of development (using a charge out rate of $50 per hour) then I have broken even.

It remains to be seen if it is as good as that and I will hopefully get some time over the next few weeks to look at it in depth.