Re: Rekall for Free

I can't wait!

On 5/11/05, John Dean <john(at)totalrekall(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
>
> Hi
> This is my first post to this mailing list. I would like all list members
> that I am the same person who used to work for MySQL AB. Even though I
> worked for MySQL AB, PostgreSQL has always been my RDBMS of choice. The
> reason for telling you all about about my involvement with MySQL is
> because
> I do not want anybody to think that I have joined this mailing list to be
> disruptive or the sing the praises of MySQL. On the contrary, I have
> joined
> this list to help users get the best out of PG and to answer questions
> relating to PG/Rekall issues.
>
> The first point I would like to raise, relates to something I came across
> in the archive, with the subject line "free WINDOWS rekall". Shortly,
> before Chris Green posted his reply to the original post made by
> Typing80wpm(at)aol(dot)com, Mike Richardson( Rekall GPL at www.rekallrevealed.org<http://www.rekallrevealed.org>
> ) and myself ( Rekall commercial binary distros at www.totalrekall.co.uk<http://www.totalrekall.co.uk>)
> made the decision to give away old versions of Rekall. All Rekall V2.1.1
> releases are now available for free download. The only stipulation is that
> users register with the TotalRekall web site. The reason I ask this is
> because occasionally I will send a bulk email notifying everybody of new
> releases ( free, GPL and commercial ) . I do this may be 3 or 4 times per
> year.
>
> The second point I would like to raise, concerns our relationship with
> theKompany.com <http://theKompany.com> (TKC). The simple answer to this
> point is that we have no
> relationship with TKC. At the time of the parting of the ways we made an
> announcement to the affect that we would offer Rekall users, who had
> bought
> Rekall from TKC, the opportunity to switch over to us for free. This offer
> was limited to 12 months, which has since expired. We said at the time
> that
> we would not provide support or maintenance to TKC customers unless they
> switched over to us. TKC still continue to sell Rekall V2.1.x, which we
> offer as a free download, and since Shawn Gordon has very limited
> technically ability, he will not be able to provide much in the way of
> technical support. He certainly will not be able to provide maintenance
> releases, or new releases. TKC is selling an old out of date release for
> $69, whereas we sell Rekall for £25 ( approx $45 ). We are thinking about
> offering 3 editions - Standard, Professional and Enterprise. I will say
> more about that once we have decided how best to do this and how we much
> we
> are going to charge. What I can say is that we are working on some pretty
> cool enhancements to Rekall, which will allow us to split the basic
> package
> into 3 separate editions. The one enhancement which excite us most (at the
> moment) is Rekall/WEB. If you want to know more about Rekall/WEB take a
> look at the FAQs on http://www.totalrekall.co.uk.
>
> One thing we have been thinking about for a long time is offering ready to
> use Rekall applications, which we will sell at a fraction of the price of
> similar types of applications. In addition, providing there is sufficient
> interest we would like to produce a totally PG oriented version of Rekall.
> If we did that we could include all the administrative feature of PG and
> lots more
>
> ---
>
> Regards
> John Dean,
> co-author of Rekall,
> the only alternative
> to MS Access
>
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