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| James J. Gavan 2006-02-22, 6:55 pm |
| nong wrote:
> Where I can Download Netexpress ?
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You can't download a 'freebie'. Go to Home Page microfocus.com. You
either (a) Purchase the full product for around $3,000, (depends upon
your country), or (b) If experimenting to see what you can do, buy for
about $100, Net Express - University Edition. The latter has all
features at the time of publishing - you can't use it to distribute an
application. There is a 'lock' on the maximum lines per program.
If you check the M/F site and wait a few months into the spring, then
they will soon be issuing Net Express V 5.0 - at the same time there
will be a University Edition of N/E V 5. Should you subsequently switch
to the full product then I believe your purchase price is discounted by
what you have already paid for N/E University Edition.
The initial full purchase covers you for the first year of Tech Support.
Subsequent years you pay around $1,000 which gives you access to
fixpacks and updates, and the next versions they issue.
You should be aware that when you distribute your software Micro Focus
will charge a runtime fee for each distribution, together with a 'lock'
Key which gets into the end-users copy of your software. How much they
will charge ? That will be interesting - ask them to give you FIRM
FIGURES IN WRITING !
Jimmy, Calgary AB
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| tsquare21 2006-02-25, 6:55 pm |
| Crazy is what the COBOL produciers are $3000 dollars PLUS distributing
fees.
JAVA free or at most a small $49 price tag. free distributation.
C any variation Free to $150 (who dosn't have a upgrade option) again
most have free distributation.
Basic and Delphi CHEAP with free distributation. Well MS charges some
for it's corporate version.
Even Fujitso has a 1500 price tag (the one I use, free from Wardels
book) Does anyone know any limitation to this version of fujitso
Yes youi can find last years version of MF on EBay while suplies last
for under 100.
I guess the question should be is why we can't get a full version of
COBOL for $350 without upgrade options and $100-150 with upgrade
options. MF or whatever company owns you today. How about it, price
competive products. Just maybe you will not have to almost go out of
buisness again.
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| Alistair 2006-02-25, 9:55 pm |
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tsquare21 wrote:
> Crazy is what the COBOL produciers are $3000 dollars PLUS distributing
> fees.
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> JAVA free or at most a small $49 price tag. free distributation.
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> C any variation Free to $150 (who dosn't have a upgrade option) again
> most have free distributation.
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> Basic and Delphi CHEAP with free distributation. Well MS charges some
> for it's corporate version.
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> Even Fujitso has a 1500 price tag (the one I use, free from Wardels
> book) Does anyone know any limitation to this version of fujitso
I believe that it will not interface with ODBC so you can not use it to
access a database.
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> Yes youi can find last years version of MF on EBay while suplies last
> for under 100.
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> I guess the question should be is why we can't get a full version of
> COBOL for $350 without upgrade options and $100-150 with upgrade
> options. MF or whatever company owns you today. How about it, price
> competive products. Just maybe you will not have to almost go out of
> buisness again.
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| Frederico Fonseca 2006-02-26, 7:55 am |
| On 25 Feb 2006 17:23:22 -0800, "Alistair"
<alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>I believe that it will not interface with ODBC so you can not use it to
>access a database.
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If it can access COM objects then it can access any database.
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Frederico Fonseca
ema il: frederico_fonseca at syssoft-int.com
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