Re: WebMerchant 3.0 for Mac shipping now
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texte = Let me preface this by saying that I really haven't investigated WebMerchant 3 or it's capabilities:WebMerchant 3 is written in WebDNA and sold as an encrypted template pack. If you don't want to pay for it you could, in theory, write all of the same functionality yourself. I think that Grant even provided a snippet a while back showing how to use [TCPConnect] to talk to CyberCash.Take a look at what WebMerchant features you will need and use, estimate how much time it will take you to write those features yourself, and then make a decision. Maybe then the pricing will make more sense. Or maybe you'll have discovered a better way. I don't really know.The point is that you do have some other options.-Dave At 10:31 AM 12/4/98, Alex McCombie wrote: >> Did I miss something? I would really like to know if I did before we >>write the check. > > > Well, I am not sure how to approach this one. I have struggled with this >since yesterday and wanted to avoid any company bashing because I don't find >it to be professional, but have another major concern, unfortunately. > > > WebMerchant 5 Pack > Price: $2500.00 > > > Now before I get into it, I believe that the policy is that when I >upgrade from my webcat/merchant 2.0 package I will receive serial numbers >for webcat/merchant 3.0 for a single store for 895$. This, while pricey, is >tolerable because of the wonderful features added to both packages. And >historically my WebCat license has allowed my unlimited databases on a >single machine, and also that refusing to go the WebMerchant 3.0 scenario is >asking for trouble in that support for the old merchant will eventually be >hard to come by. > > > But hey, $2500 for 5 stores, when to the best of my understanding all >that happens is that the template regenerate themselves into a new directory >and functionality is primarily provided through a webcatalog database. > > In other words, this is essentially charging for the right to be able to >run multiple WebMerchant databases on the same system. Not different systems >mind you, as that would take multiple versions of webcatalog. Let me give >some examples of how offensive I find this. See if these analogies are >relevant..o--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--------------- 802.253.8612 --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+
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Let me preface this by saying that I really haven't investigated WebMerchant 3 or it's capabilities:WebMerchant 3 is written in WebDNA and sold as an encrypted template pack. If you don't want to pay for it you could, in theory, write all of the same functionality yourself. I think that Grant even provided a snippet a while back showing how to use
[tcpconnect] to talk to CyberCash.Take a look at what WebMerchant features you will need and use, estimate how much time it will take you to write those features yourself, and then make a decision. Maybe then the pricing will make more sense. Or maybe you'll have discovered a better way. I don't really know.The point is that you do have some other options.-Dave At 10:31 AM 12/4/98, Alex McCombie wrote: >> Did I miss something? I would really like to know if I did before we >>write the check. > > > Well, I am not sure how to approach this one. I have struggled with this >since yesterday and wanted to avoid any company bashing because I don't find >it to be professional, but have another major concern, unfortunately. > > > WebMerchant 5 Pack > Price: $2500.00 > > > Now before I get into it, I believe that the policy is that when I >upgrade from my webcat/merchant 2.0 package I will receive serial numbers >for webcat/merchant 3.0 for a single store for 895$. This, while pricey, is >tolerable because of the wonderful features added to both packages. And >historically my WebCat license has allowed my unlimited databases on a >single machine, and also that refusing to go the WebMerchant 3.0 scenario is >asking for trouble in that support for the old merchant will eventually be >hard to come by. > > > But hey, $2500 for 5 stores, when to the best of my understanding all >that happens is that the template regenerate themselves into a new directory >and functionality is primarily provided through a webcatalog database. > > In other words, this is essentially charging for the right to be able to >run multiple WebMerchant databases on the same system. Not different systems >mind you, as that would take multiple versions of webcatalog. Let me give >some examples of how offensive I find this. See if these analogies are >relevant..o--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--------------- 802.253.8612 --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+
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