Hi Jos
I know you have been using WinDev for a while so I am pretty convinced you actually know what you are talking about and the product is as presented on their website. I have to say it sound intriguing. At least to where I downloaded a whole lot of stuff and will start reading and maybe even tinkering a bit with their express version. How is the user community and peer to peer support?
Will probably be another year before I am stepping away from my current gig ( would certainly be pleased by that ) but always like to have something to look forward to.
The pricing certainly seems very straightforward and extremely reasonable.
Are you really in HK now? The Flying Dutchman indeed <s>
>>>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?
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>You get updates to the purchased version for free and you get a discount price for the next version. You can skip versions.
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>Different IDE versions (desktop, web, mobile) are seperate products but all resonably priced imo.
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>No royalties for distirbution.
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>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.
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>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
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