Too expensive... - Diego Rey Méndez

"REALbasic standard costs $99.95. REALbasic professional costs $399.95. REALbasic's upgrade for standard is $29.95. REALbasic's upgrade for Pro is $119.95."

That is not true. You're talking about just licenses there, not fully packaged product with documentaion and examples. To make a fair comparison I'll put the RB multi-platform development cost, with documentation and updates up to 6.0:

Realbasic professional v5.0 (full package with documentation and examples): $449.95
Realbasic license update (no docs or examples) from v5.0 to 5.5: $119.95
Realbasic total = $669.9

And the same for CW:

Metrowerks codewarrior 9.x (full documentation, up to next big version): $599.00

So CW IS cheaper. Please note that the renewal for CodeWarrior is just from v7 or v8 to v9, and the RealBasic upgrade is for v5.0 to v5.5, which means you pay in the middle if you want to have all v5.x versions of RB. For this very reason I can't see why the upgrade price should be put into the CW calculations.

Diego Rey

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Wednesday, March 10 2004 @ 09:20 AM PST