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DevExpress xtraReports: 200 and change
Adobe Live Cycle with enough options to be useful: 500,000
Result: usually the same. Although to be fair you can get Acrobat for 399.
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Ha! I just read that Adobe Reader 10 ("X") requires ~450 MB of disk space. This is a simple PDF reader, like the one which comes out of the box with Google Chrome.
Why the hell would I install 450 MB to just read PDFs? This is really crazy. 
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Hmpf! Still no world domination with the CListCtrl.com[^] domain I registered 2 years ago. 
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Royalty free distribution licence is a must for components, purely development tool must be flexible to integrate into our building system and source control. On-line activation, dongles and run-time licence are all out of question!
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I agree here big time.
I run across so many components that charge the developer a license fee and then still feel that they can charge run-time fees for deployments.
Wake the heck up. You want me to develop and sell a solution using your component you need to do a few things first:
1) Make it easy for ME the developer to use.
2) Make it easy fro ME the developer to get help when I need it.
3) Make it easy for ME the developer to have faith that you are going to be around for a while.
If you make me pay for the developer versions and then turn over part of my profit to you to continue USING it there is NO WAY your stuff is going to end up in my project because that means that YOU now have control over either MY profit margin or potentially MY customers willingness to pay what I HAVE to charge to meet MY costs.
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Generally I can figure the rest out from them demo. If I don't need support, that's an extra super plus. The features/price ratio is important; if they're within an order of magnitude of what I can get by with my measly efforts, then no sale, unless I'm under extreme time pressure (in the which case I'm more likely to throw features overboard anyhow).
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Generally, whoever I work for has ideas on what tools I should use, and often provides them. This naturally leads one to become familiar with the tools, which makes them more useful at home. That's how I ended up with Microsoft Visual Studio.
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
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is a major factor in some places I know of 
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lol.. that made me laugh a lot and you're probably right in a lot of cases.
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Isn't this supposed to be a multiple choice survey?
/ravi
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Yes. It is clearly Monday, at least for me. Of course, I said that all last week, Monday through Friday!
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Jeff Hadfield wrote: Yes. It is clearly Monday, at least for me. Of course, I said that all last week, Monday through Friday!
The delayed newsletters, the messed up survey etc. gives off this vibe that perhaps you are trying to do as bad a job as possible so that next time Chris goes on holiday he won't dump all these chores on you 
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For me, it'll be compatibility. The less code you have to adapt to fit this in, the better. You keep your code clean and easy to maintain. You keep the plugin or tool easy to replace. You also keep the cohesion high.
That's also why I'm not a fan of the way we use CodeSmith at work. We basically cripple ourselves with another abstraction that can get pretty heavy and, in our case, hinder our performances. I've seen someone filter a query in the .NET code instead of using a "WHERE" in the SQL query. I've seen someone request all the FKs of a 10000 result query in .NET in order to build a label field.
Developpers get blinded when you put too much abstraction in their faces. That's why I think that keeping the cohesion high is more important than automation, scripts or any other developping tools.
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My decisions are based on more than just one of these choices, such as features and demo and source code.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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Fixed. I meant to do multiple choice and chose the wrong option. Argh.
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How the heck does this get two votes (so far)?
You can't generally assess this until you have a problem. By then, they have the money and it is too late. Quality of support is generally cr@p, but you don't find out until you really need it to be brilliant.
There are exceptions, but most companies put me off buying their products via support calls, than persuade me into it.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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In my experience, less support is required by having access to The Code Project, Stack Overflow and other sites and forums alike.
Wake up! The Singularity is coming.
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