[Interest] Qt.io confusing website ... where are the pricing table and how to get indie license ?

[Gian Maxera]

Let’s focus on the website and Qt … because even If I want to convince a big company to move and using Qt … how can I do that if the Qt website is so messy and so a disaster ?
I don’t think a company that can afford 350 $/month will be convinced by the Qt website that their product is reliable and trustable … because (maybe it’s my bias) but everything some commercial doesn’t give me a clear view of their product and a clear view of pricing … I always think that his going to cheat me in someways. Maybe it’s me … who knows :-)
We don’t know how many commercial licenses Qt sell and how much is the Qt profit.
Why don’t share also this information on the website ?
I think is can be very useful for catching new customer to clear state on the website something like that: “We have 14500 companies that rely on Qt Commercial license”

Ciao,
Gianluca.


> On 16 Jul 2015, at 10:23, Daniel França <daniel.franca at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ohh, forgot about the extended availability of indie licenses.
> 
> Anyway, I do agree 100% with Nuno, most of people I talk don't even know about Qt.
> Qt is an amazing framework, QML is fantastic to build UI, but it's missing the point to let more people know about it and I don't think that removing indie license is a good move in that direction.
> 
> 
> Em qui, 16 de jul de 2015 às 10:42, Nuno Santos <nunosantos at imaginando.pt <mailto:nunosantos at imaginando.pt>> escreveu:
> To all Qt company workers out there:
> 
> Please pass this feedback to the right persons in sales and management. This last month has clearly shown that there is a lot on unexploited sales potential out there. 
> 
> Having a good product is not enough. You need to know how to sell it! 
> 
> Xamarin has a clear pricing table, does Adwords, Facebook Ads, etc. This is something every company does nowadays to sell their products.
> 
> Most of the developers I know and talk to don’t even know Qt.
> 
> Qt has an AWESOME product but most of the developers don’t know about it. That will not happen by miracle!
> 
> You should definitely start organising local events with Qt evangelisers in key cities, to spread the technology and show it’s potential.
> 
> And YES, the new website is a complete disaster.
> 
> Please exchange the Download top bar navigation by Pricing and be explicit. You have a good example here:
> 
> https://store.xamarin.com/ <https://store.xamarin.com/>
> 
> With the indie licenses you don’t earn money in short term, but you are preparing the new wave of developers to evangelise your technology and use it in the future in their successful companies or jobs.
> 
> 
> Or maybe we are all wrong and Qt Company is already having a huge profit and an exponential growth in users, if that is the case, sorry, we don’t have the data to see the whole picture.
> 
> Once again, Qt Rocks! 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nuno
> 
>> On 16 Jul 2015, at 09:28, Gian Maxera <gmaxera at gmail.com <mailto:gmaxera at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> I don’t know if in this mailing list there is someone in charge of developing the Qt.io new website … so, sorry If I’m complaining on the wrong list, but the new Qt.io website is a nightmare maze ! :-(
>> There is no way to understand what Qt does on different platform and license.
>> Where is a simple pricing table with what’s included or not ? Where is a list and a comparison of what it’s included for each commercial license ?
>> What are the purpose of the wizard-questions that get you to one of the Qt products ? The questions are very strange and weird ! 
>> Why I cannot just select the type of the license I want without answering to all these questions ?
>> How can I get the indie license ? I tried to answer in different ways trying a lot of combination … but I always end on two possible outcomes: LGPL free and 350$/month commercial one !
>> So, are there only two type of licensing ? So, why just do not clear say that on the website ?
>> 
>> Sorry about this complain … but I’m complaining because I love Qt … and the old website was so good, so clear, so simple … that this new confusion, obscure website does not help me to spread the voice about the powerful of Qt.
>> 
>> Ciao,
>> Gianluca.
>> 
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