I too have used Omnis since the "early days" on a Mac Plus. I followed the upgrades over the years, spending THOUSANDS of dollars. Yes thousands.

I don't know where the other comment poster got their numbers for pricing, but if you want the development kit so you can create both Mac and Windows applications and distribute them, it is going to cost you big time.

Then there's the "per seat" licensing pricing. Last I checked, even in quantity, the seat cost was around $80 per seat.

Omnis is probably fine for an in-house app development, but not for distribution of small, simple, or shareware apps. At $20 per seat it would still be too expensive for these purposes. The Omnis market seems to be about 10+ seats and up to huge corporate users. Anything less and its more cost effective to use FileMaker, RB, MySQL etc.

RealBasic (despite its many issues) is the clear winner for cross-platform development at a reasonable cost (I believe it's $249).

I too wrote many apps in Omnis that are still in use today, some still on a Mac Plus. Fortunately, it's easy to get data OUT of Omnis, and I have converted several of the databases to RB and MySQL or Valentina.

Omnis, in comparison to RealBasic has turned out to be real bloatware and is a relic of the 80's and 90's that has never really been modernized. I can build an app in RB three times as fast as Omnis with no loss in performance or capability.

And don't get me started on 4D...

Just my two cents.