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[roscoe36]

Needs

1. Support
2. Code Quality
3. Bug Backlog
4. Features
5. Price

Questions

1. Are the existing clients happy?
2. Are updates timely...

[roscoe36]

Back in the day, Gold meant common bugs were already weeded out....

[roscoe36]

Right, don't hold off on buying, just hold off on asking for a refund. You guys crack me up....

[roscoe36]

What was said in the past is completely irrelevant to me. The fact of the matter is, everyone with an active license, will likely need to buy vB4 outright if they want full upgrades. Those currently...

[roscoe36]

It makes perfect sense if you want more owned licenses to go inactive so they have to buy 4.x at full price....

[roscoe36]

Then why can't we look at it?

Buy it but you don't know when you can get it. It's unusable but it is rock solid. It is not ok on the development server, but it is ok on my server.
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[roscoe36]

That's not very reassuring for customers. It means the software is a long way off, but for some reason, it is being presold aggressively....

[roscoe36]

Announced where?

Not by email, and not through my AdminCP....

[roscoe36]

Yes it is. Government can make claims like "ignorance of the law is no excuse" but in the private world, someone who changes a contract, is obligated to inform the other party of the contract...

[roscoe36]

You understand it perfectly....

[roscoe36]

The thing is, it is not a pre-order. I've done pre-orders before. You have an estimated delivery date on a pre-order. IB is making no promise of when our order will be filled, and AFAICT, no indication...

[roscoe36]

I'm quite certain vB2 => vB3 didn't work that way....

[roscoe36]

As I understand it, here is an example because I don't think many people understand the consequences of what is going on.

You renewed vB 6 months ago.

So your renewal will end...

[roscoe36]

That is the quandary.

When they stop supporting V4, you will have to buy V5 if there is a problem with V4.

I gotta say, whoever thought this up, must have read The Prince a few...

[roscoe36]

It is in Alpha. Not even Beta yet.

Wishful thinking that anyone will see V4 before Nov 1....

[roscoe36]

You don't get it. They changed the license structure, which means they changed contracts they had with us, with little prior consultation, and completely in their favour, and to our detriment. They...

[roscoe36]

Good job Wayne. Not so hard to satisfy the plebs. IB is lucky to have you.

[roscoe36]

It's not free. You paid for it. ...

[roscoe36]

Happens on all of our forums too.

When you do something unpopular and don't communicate it clearly, this is the result. Any forum admin could tell you this is what to expect....

[roscoe36]

It is pointless to have docs only for the backend, and not for moderating (deleting, merging etc.) from the front end.

Many of the functions are not self-explanatory. If you delete the first...