$99 InstallShield come-on has catches

[wgcs]

InstallShield/MacroVision is promoting an upgrade from, it seems, every prior express version (such as express and VFP's limited version) to Express v11.

This version has some tempting new features, but it also Comes with server based product Activation ta enforce a per Machine licensing model. This means that you cannot even install on a second Live- backup build machine.

What's more, their E.U.L.A. also requires multiple people accessing the program an one computer to each have their own license... At $450 per person!

They have now lost my business! Hello Wise!


- Bill

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[craigsboyd]

wgcs,

I couldn't agree with you more. Both Installshield and Crystal Reports are making some horrendously poor choices these days when it comes to their EULAs. Squeezing a customer base for ever dime it has is not a good long term plan for increasing profits - though it no doubt gives them a short lived windfall. Hopefully the bean counters will wake up at some point, but unfortunately it will probably be sometime after they notice that they've lost half of their beans.

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[Mike Lewis]

Bill,

Thanks for posting that. It's an important point for VFP folk.

I also agree with Craig about Crystal Reports. Their new licence has provoked a lot of controvery in resentment in the CR world.

Mike


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[Eguy]

Bill et al,

This makes as much sense as me buying a book from Amazon.com and then having to buy another copy for my wife to read.

Fortunatly, (for me anyway) I have just recently retired so I don't have to put up with that type of BS anymore.

Ed

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[DSummZZZ]

Eguy,
Lucky S... uuhh, feller!

Is there by chance, a tek-fishing forum?

-Dave Summers-

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[Eguy]

Dave,

I don't know who said it first but -
"The worst day of fishing beats the best day at work."

Actually, what I would love to do is to rebuild a 1960's muscle car i.e GTO, Nova, Road Runner, etc. But that means getting Mrs. Eguy to vacate the garage and park on the street, and I don't see that happening.

Ed


Please let me know if the suggestion(s) I provide are helpful to you.
Sometimes you're the windshield... Sometimes you're the bug.

 

[GriffMG]

Personally I still use SetupGeneratorPro.

Nice an simple, reliable installs.

Can't do better than that for me.

VFP 5-9 all work a treat.

Regards

Griff
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[tamayok]

I gave up on using InstallShield a while ago... Simply too cumbersome and unreliable. I am now using InnoSetup and feel much relieved.

InnoSetup is free although one can donate to the author; there are several usefull links in the Fox Wiki forum. The day or so spent learning this installation tool is an excellent time investment if you ever need to distribute an application.

The only downfall to InnoSetup is that one must take the time to write code for the registration of external components without any hint of what's needed.

Kenneth Tamayo
San Juan, Puerto Rico - USA

http://www.kennethtamayo.com