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I think Jason killed his company himself. He went and moved into a new office and hired a bunch of people. If you don't have the money for that, then don't do

I think Jason killed his company himself. He went and moved into a new office and hired a bunch of people. If you don't have the money for that, then don't do it. I believe that if he stayed lean he'd be able to survive. I am an owner of a VistaDB license and I truly love it, but I am not about to pay $699 for a version that has no activation. I bought the product and if he is going to go out of business and shut down the activation servers, the product I bought will be useless. Garbage! If he is going under, we should be able to get that last release without activation for free. Ridiculous. Jason definitely isn't handling this appropriately. I never liked his paranoid licensing to begin with.

Ggeo 16y ago
Yes, I believe this, too. He killed his company and his software not focusing on the VistaDB strength being an excellent website database, Xcopy deployable and first of all running in Medium Trust on shared hosting servers. But he wanted simply to high subscription fees and concentrated on implementing his paranoid licensing system to enforce it. No wonder that, as he writes himself, the revenues decreased constantly. Many developers would be ready to pay yearly about $100 without problems but not the amounts he wanted. So his company collapsing is his doing and not caused by wrong behavior of other people (software developer in this case). Geo