Ivan... Obrigado pela sua especial atenção.

Você poderia então detalhar como funciona o plano de licenciamento e suporte do SF?

Observei que na compra existe uma opção de licenciamento anual. Entendi corretamente?

Rogério Mauri

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É assim, você viu os produtos à venda, o Application Framework (o StrataFrame propiramente dito), o Database Deployment Toolkit e o Role Based Security. O custo é de licensa para 1 ano, o que inclui todas as upgrades durante este período, e mais suporte gratuito através do forum. Isto não quer dizer que daqui 1 ano você não tenha mais direito ao uso do framework, só quer dizer que param as upgrades. Então, pode ser que valha a pena manter o pagamento anual, a não ser que você não precise das upgrades, mas isto fica para você decidir.

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Sorry for this in portuguese, guys. It's only about the licensing policy for the framework. But since we brazilians plan to take over the world, you might as well start learning a bit.

Ok Ivan. Entendi agora como funciona o plano de licenciamento. Isso demonstra que a MicroFour terá interesse em evoluir a ferramenta.

Ok Ivan. I understood now as the licensing plan functions. This demonstrates that the MicroFour will have interest in evolving the tool.

Rogério Mauri

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In answer to Howard's question, if something were to happen (certainly not saying it will, just trying to put your mind at ease), we would release the source code for all of the design-time components and the ES.  That way you could just cut out the licensing and keep using it.  But don't plan on that happening any time soon

Rogerio,

Ivan's portuguese seems to be in order but if it is ok, for the forum at large, I will respond in english.

The future: MicroFour has spent a substantial amount of money and time developing SF out of a great need for a framework for our medical product.  We like you, purchased several frameworks that either evaporated or were not designed for a robust application.  We continue to enhance SF and make normal bug fixes.  As our medical applications grows we actually incorporate new features to accommodate our needs.  Additionally, .NET will release major changes, in regards to data handling in the coming months through 2008.  As those changes are available we will enhance the framework.

 It is paramount to MicroFour that all changes are backward compatible or permitted to coexist with existing software.  I would not be interested in making changes to SF that would obsolete all the the code we have generated on the medical side of things.  Generally speaking, MicroFour's products have a long life and we have never left anyone on an island.

What we are building is a community of developers and like a family not everyone gets what they want all of the time, unless you are my five year of son, of course.  Our goal is to serve the community and produce better products than the "bad guys."  It is not a perfect world but we care and at least we are accessible but some means.

Our business model is all about understanding the problem.  For example, in order to totally understand the medical business we own a clinic that serves 40-60 patients a day.  We don't have to ask someone to explain what we need in the medical software.  On the other hand we enjoy the same privilege on the framework, we use it to program daily and see its strengths and try to resolve its weaknesses.

Steve, CEO

Therefore, if I understood correctly, the MicroFour already is looking at for version 2008 of .NET.

OK?

This is excellent!

Rogério Mauri

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