Very Greedy Developer - but does it work? - afterhours

What alternatives do you suggest? If this works, then is the price that bad? I've been looking for this kind of solution for a while. If the other developers aren't stepping up to the plate, and if this works as advertised, is it that cheap? Not supporting his licensing, but not knocking it if it works, either.

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Monday, February 09 2009 @ 02:42 PM PST

Very Greedy Developer - lostinspace2011--2008

I am the developer of Address Book and Calendar Server and feel I need to comment on this aspect. The licensing model requires each user accounts which contributed to the centrally shared Address Book to be licensed. This is quite common practice in software development and done by many applications. The same as having to have the operating system licensed for example.

I particularly set the cost of the product so low, that this would never be a problem. Currently a 2 User license costs £25.00 ($35.00 USD) which is a cost of about $17.00 per client account. The scale goes up to £450.00 ($650.00 USD) for an unlimited client license. This allows me to offer smaller clients a solution at a reasonable cost to them as well as larger ones the opportunity to scale without incurring additional costs.

Then there is one other aspect of software development. It doesn't grow on trees. To design and develop any application takes quite some effort. I wonder what the person who submitted the previous post does in their day time, that they give away for free. There are very few free bees to be had in the real world. Fortunately some developers are either lucky enough to be financially independent, or have other sponsors who support them, allowing them to offer the fruits of their labour for free. Unfortunately I am not one of these (yet).

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Sunday, March 29 2009 @ 04:16 AM PDT