Well I have to agree with you. While I know some managers will balk at the price, those will probably be the same managers not purchasing productive tools for other tasks also (and so it will take their developers longer to do the same tasks and hence cost them more labor $ anyway). I think you are correct in pricing it relative to its productive value and that value is very high. IT is a GREAT development tool and well worth whatever price you decide upon. Keep in mind though: by including all of the features from the 'get go' you leave no room for future features! :o) It would behoove MSFT to invest in the tool (purchase the rights to use it from you) and include it in the next version of VFP, but we well know that won't happen! Have you offered it to them for a price? It amazes me that they would not grab it!

Tracy

>>Rich, I thought it looked excellent and definitely a product worth acquiring.
>> I am concerned about your pricing plans though. Afterall, VFP Professional is 549.00
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>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/prodinfo/purchase/pricing.asp
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>> and that puts your tool outside of the language's cost even. I'm not saying it's not worth it,
>> just concerned that some manager's may balk at the price if the tool is even more costly
>> than the language itself. A frequent problem with frameworks and they are well worth the cost also!
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>Tracy, thanks for the nice response.
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>I guess if I sell several hundred thousand copies of the control like MS has done with VFP, I could send out Rebate Checks. <bg> I really do hate giving prices on stuff. However, I have evaluated several other components on the market that are similar and they have ranged in price from about $350 for the low-end to $1350 for the high end. I always add in too many features I guess which drives the price up. But those features always start out as things I really wish I had. So I add them.
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>I know that AMYUNI used to produce PDF output is about $800 or so. So I am also trying not to be too underpriced as well because AMYUNI is also not a REPORT PREVIEW engine as well and won't automatically add Watermarks and Rotate Text and fix our Zoom issues in Preview as well as automatically display Page X of Y without doing multiple passes. I've spent a lot of time figure out some of those items. If Microsoft wanted to pay me a nice sum of money then I would integrate my work into VFP for them and we would ALL be happy. I have offered. But I can only dream! <bg>
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>But thanks again for the feedback. I am trying to get a feel for how to do this pricing stuff!
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>Did you try the PDF Output?
>Also did you turn on the Calendar and Load a Picture just to try it out?
>Have you tried it on a VFP Form yet? It is very VFP Friendly for an ActiveX Control as opposed to the DBI controls I use.