david@cernvax.cern.ch (david foster) (03/14/91)
>In article <4504@cernvax.cern.ch>, david@cernvax.cern.ch (david foster) writes: >> [...] I am a Borland >> fan, so when I saw a stack of objectvision boxes in my local pc store >> I dived in with my $99.99 and bought it. Great, I love it, a forms based >> but the runtime version (!) of objectvision wil cost you $495 !!!!!! > >forms in a format for distribution) or a royalty for EACH package you >Is that $495 a one-time charge .......... > > Bruce C. Wright Borland have confirmed that the normal cost for objectvision will be $495+$495 (the runtime is for an unlimited license). As Bruce points out for commercial use then the price is reasonable :-) I was going to use it for much smaller distribution. Its amazing how many applications fall into the forms category though, and objectvision is certainly a nice tool. As I have read on the net (and spoken to) some people about objectvision applications I felt it was necessary to share the licensing information. By the way, Borland reminded me that there is a license charge for distributing applications based on Borland C++ 2.0 ($147) !! David Foster (davidf@interlink.com)
tinglof@hdlite.enet.dec.com (03/15/91)
In article <4526@cernvax.cern.ch>, david@cernvax.cern.ch (david foster) writes: |>By the way, Borland reminded me that there is a license charge for |>distributing applications based on Borland C++ 2.0 ($147) !! |> |> David Foster (davidf@interlink.com) |> You scared me there for a moment! The license agreement that comes with BC++ allows you to give away or sell porgrams compiled with C++ as long as all copies contain a copyright notice (either yours or Borland's). This is the same as all past versions of Turbo C. Michael Tinglof tinglof@hdlite.dec.com
sidney@borland.com (Sidney Markowitz) (03/15/91)
In article <4526@cernvax.cern.ch> david@cernvax.cern.ch (david foster) writes: >By the way, Borland reminded me that there is a license charge for >distributing applications based on Borland C++ 2.0 ($147) !! I don't know who at Borland may have said this, but it is not true. There is no royalty or license fee required for distributing applications built using Borland C++, or any Borland language product. -- sidney markowitz <sidney@borland.com> Borland International (Languages - R&D)
tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) (03/15/91)
david foster <david@cernvax.cern.ch> writes: > Borland have confirmed that the normal cost for objectvision will be $495 + > $495 (the runtime is for an unlimited license). As Bruce points out for > commercial use then the price is reasonable :-) I was going to use it for > much smaller distribution. > [...] By the way, Borland reminded me that there is a license charge for > distributing applications based on Borland C++ 2.0 ($147) !! A distribution charge for BC++?!? So Borland is cheaper than MSC+SDK, but then you spend $100 on manuals and $150 on a licensing fee, and you're almost at the SDK price --- and still without a debugging kernel. I'm not impressed with Borland's hidden back-end costs... Based on this, and on another article where the BC++ executable was 840K compared to MSC's 720K, I think that if we do get BC++, it'll be for development only, and the final distribution versions will be compiled with Microsoft C and SDK. [ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ] [ "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]