Re: Question About SA

In article <xn0f2qgyb62bgu001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John E. Wilfong
wrote:
Purchase D2007 for Win32. Purchase automatically includes 12 months
updates. Essentially you are purchasing a subscription whether you
want to or not with the initial purchase.

At the end of the 12 months you renew the subscription. You are given
60-90 days to renew. Date of subscription would start at date of
expiration of prior subscription.

After the 60-90 days you are still able to renew but at a higher cost,
increased each month until full amount of an initial purchase would
needed again. Date of subscription would start at renewal date, not
at expiration (after all, you are paying more now).

This is more or less exactly what we do, save that we have four price
points from about 25% of new price for continuing cover up to 50% if you
are a registered user of an much older version - remember the Bible story
about joy over sinners who repent! You need to get then to repent, not
punish them!

As I may have mentioned before, the two things a system like this gives you
are a steady cash flow and the ability to introduce new enhancements at any
time without saving them up. The latter, of course, is somewhat more
challenging with a development tool since we would all go mad (the third
party component suppliers especially) if the VCL was incrementally enhanced
each month! But if the help file improved month on month ....

--
Tony Bryer SDA UK 'Software to build on' www.sda.co.uk
Software Industry Conference 2007 sponsor www.sic.org
Hyatt TechCenter, Denver, July 12-14, 2007

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