PowerHouse on Linux

[Jeff Hoffman]

At 12:38 PM 02-04-03 -0800, Chuck Reinke wrote: 

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interesting economic analysis. Programming talent must be little valued
in Australia. In the US the cost you cite might buy 2 to 10 days of
consulting effort in the US. If programmer makes about $10.00/ hr where
you are, maybe it's a real advantage to develop and maintain a system in
C++, visual basic or something like that.

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Very true my friend, however I have this dream, that small business could
be advantaged by purchasing a package developed in PH.


As we all know it is more cost effective to develop a system using PH and
more versatile with maintenance.


I ran a shop using 2 developers using PH, doing the same work as another
shop employing upto 10 developers using Powerbuilder.


How can PC packages be develop using C++ etc that should cost a lot more
to be produced and maintained, be sold for less than a US$500, yet if we
did the same with PH the starting price has to include the US$3,000 PH
licence, before you add development costs.


I guess I will just keep on dreaming.


Jeff


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 <bold>From:</bold> <<mailto:mr_lalley@yahoo.com>Craig Lalley 

 <bold>To:</bold> <<mailto:wonicon@optushome.com.au>Jeff Hoffman ;
<<mailto:powerh-l@lists.swau.edu>powerh-l@lists.swau.edu 

 <bold>Sent:</bold> Tuesday, April 01, 2003 3:54 PM

 <bold>Subject:</bold> Re: PowerHouse on Linux

 

 

 

 <bold><italic>Jeff Hoffman
<<<<mailto:wonicon@optushome.com.au>wonicon@optushome.com.au></italic>
wrote: 

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Another reason that PH will not advance is cost, I was just looking at PH

8.41 on Win2000 and if I developed a system for a customer there would be

immediately a $6,000 ($australian approx 3,000 $US) upfront cost for just

the PH licenece (one developer / five user run-time / five user data

access) I would then have to recover development costs. This would put the

Kybo on most projects.

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I remember when the current OS that was happening was OS/2 vs the yet to be released Win95, circa 1995.  That year I went to Comdex.  

 

IBM was trying to sell thier developers kits for $395 (I think, it may have been more.)

 

Microsoft was giving them away by the handful. 

 

The rest is history.

 

-Craig

 


 

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