>>Fine, but the product is still not fully finished - it's a work in progress. WinDev (amongst others) is a finished and polished product in all respests from IDE to distribution, for all platforms WIndows to Apple to Linux to Andorid to iOS. It has a long history of development and refinement starting with version 1 20+ years ago and sitting at version 17 now. It has every 3rd party tool I have ever used in VFP built right in (about 30 I can think off easily). One simple price to buy the IDE of choice and royalty free distirbution of the exe and internal database.
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>Hi Jos,
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>what's the pricing policy on new versions of win/web/mobile dev? If I purchase version 17, do I get all updates to that version for free and then have to by version 18 when it comes out?

You get updates to the purchased version for free and you get a discount price for the next version. You can skip versions.

Different IDE versions (desktop, web, mobile) are seperate products but all resonably priced imo.

No royalties for distirbution.

Additional fees - the web version has one aditional once-off fee per server to handle more than 10 concurrent users to a WebDev database-driven website. Again, very reasonable - I think its US$250 for an unlimited user license per web server. The 10 concurrent user license for web sites is free. You can check their website for pricing.

EU website - http://www.windev.com/index.html
US website (and US conference info for 2012 Nov) - http://www.windev-us.com/WXUS_WEB/Home.awp