Hello Richard,
Just to clarify some things; as the developer of Ultimate Suite:
1) The license is installed on the machine that you're using for development. This seems to work well for most customers. If you have multiple dev machines and you want a Developer license, we can probably work with you on this. There are no license restrictions on the distributed files.
2) True, there never are any guarantee's. You also take that risk when developing with PB, there are no guarantees with that either. If, for some reason development has to stop, the product would be released as open source. You wouldn't be stuck without options.
3) The pricing is very fair and in line with other UI vendors. You may be referring to Enterprise licensing, which is pricey, but, you get full source code (which makes point 1 and 2 moot). Giving full source code to a product with thousands of development hours does come at a price.
4) I take care of support for the main set of UI controls and I respond almost as soon as an email comes in. Charts is supported by a second developer and he also provides excellent support. I'm not sure what delay in support that you've experienced. I do see a record of you emailing 7 years ago about PowerFilter and I can see responses sent out in less than 10 minutes, with the longest delay being a day later. Fixes are also sent to clients right away if possible, no waiting for the next release.
Please let me know if I can clarify anything else. I wish you luck with your search.
Brad
Seems kind of lame considering what Novalys charges for the Ultimate Suite.
Brad -
Thank you for the excellent explanation. And yes, I was thinking of the Enterprise pricing which is, as you said, puh-RICEY! :O
Later -
Olan