Re: Stand Alone EXE

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From: Jim Hubbard (reply_at_groups.please)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 01:32:14 -0500

"Michael A. Covington" <look@ai.uga.edu.for.address> wrote in message
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> "Jim Hubbard" <reply@groups.please> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> 1 Application License per unit with Basic support $4,000.00
>
>> The price is a little steep for freeware or small software shops, but
>> there is a reason for the price.
>>
>> Although Thinstall is very useful, the vast number of options it affords
>> the developer usually means a great deal of hand-holding and one-on-one
>> development assistance...
>
> But if you price it out of most programmers' reach, it never becomes well
> known to the programming community. It may make sales, but it won't make
> history.

Thinstall is actually making history. It is the most stable method of
distributing desktop applications in the world.

>
> If it were $99, I'd use it for the demo version of one of my apps, so that
> users could download and try it without any awareness of .NET.

Not to minimize your observation, but if it were $99, it wouldn't be the
great product it is today. (It takes more money to build a Mercedes than a
Yugo.)

As a small business myself, I understand the financial constraints that
small businesses must face. However, you also must weigh the benefits of
the product (which are substantial in this case) against the price.

I think it's worth it. It will reduce your installation and maintenance
customer service calls to almost nil. if you write software for a living or
distribute software as a major product, it pays itself in short order.

Jim Hubbard

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