OmniWeb 5.0 pricing

[Jake Robb]

I paid for OW back when it cost $60, and I have never regretted it.  It will
forever be worth hundreds of dollars more than I paid for it, all because of
the Source Editor and the Redisplay button.

-Jake


Eugene Lee wrote:

> http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/5/
> 
> Just wanted to say that I *love* the pricing scheme.  I think the
> upgrade price is more than fair to the customers, and (barring any
> major disasters) I will definitely pay the $9.95 upgrade price.
> 
> I post this to support The Omni Group for their hard work as well as
> their IMHO fair-minded upgrade pricing.  In contrast, there has been
> some recent heated discussions with CodeTek Studios' VirtualDesktop,
> a virtual desktop / workspace app.  The current price is $30.  There
> is a new version, 3.0, in development that's supposed to have lots of
> improvements to work with Exposé and X11.  The problem is that the
> developers wanted existing customers to pay a $25 upgrade fee to 3.0.
> Then came the flak.
> 
> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21851
> http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7966
> 
> Apparently, after the flak, CodeTek relented and decided to lower the
> upgrade fee to only $15 for existing customers.  So before we all beat
> up The Omni Group for this or that, let's not forget that their prices
> are still more than reasonable compared to other companies!
>