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Thank-you all for your responses to the PerXML announcement. I apologize for it being marketing heavy -- that is my fault. I am definitely not a sales / marketing type! Being able to trace my roots back to Livermore, I can assure you that the netiquette for over 25 years has been to feature an 'ANNOUNCE' notice on the subject line of announcements. These are easy enough to filter out if you don't want to read them. For Matt, congratulations on being financially independent and being able to develop your code without getting paid for it. I wish you luck in your business, which you rightly and proudly advertise in all the postings I've seen from you. Since we both have freely downloadable software, perhaps some independent party can do a compartive analysis between them. I am sure they each have their strengths. PerCurrence is trying to find a middle ground between traditional commercial software and corporate / government sponsored "Open Source" software. Most commercial software in our category costs $25,000 - $50,000 per server license. Most of that goes to the sales and marketing types. Freeware is what it says it is, but most companies won't use it unless it is supported. I am sure IBM, SUN, Anderson, VA-Linux, etc. are all happy for anyone to freely contribute to their code base as they charge $1500 / day to install it! Our philosophy is to use the Internet to cut out the middle man. To sell and support the product of our labor for a reasonable price directly to our users. At one time that was a key ideal behind the Internet. We have a very generous 50% discount for non-profit organizations. Our fully functional evaluation is renewable without charge -- non-commercial users never have to pay for it. The only thing the commercial license does is remove the <!--license--> notice from the output documents, a technique that I have seen widely used in 'freeware'. Regards, Michael Geiger President PerCurrence, Inc.
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