Lindersoft extends the Anniversary Special until Friday, September 08, 2006

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All,

Due to the national holiday in the US and eSellerate "system maintenance"
problems, we decided to extend our Anniversary Special until Friday,
September 08, 2006.


Buy SetupBuilder 5.5 Developer Edition for $299.00 and get SIX MONTH of free
upgrades and updates.

http://store.esellerate.net/s.asp?s=STR9044399608&Cmd=BUY&SKURefnum=SKU05316428340

No order coupon is required!


- OR -


If you are a registered user of "SetupBuilder for Clarion", you can switch
to SetupBuilder 5.5 Developer Edition and get a FULL year of free upgrades
and updates for only $199.00 (and SAVE $100.00) at:

http://store.esellerate.net/s.asp?s=STR9044399608&Cmd=BUY&SKURefnum=SKU8330729719

Please enter the following order coupon number when ordering at our online
store (Personal Information page): SWITCHNOW

You will see your "Coupon (SWITCHNOW)" discount (-$100.00) reflected in the
order summary at the right of the Billing Information page. Please do not
continue if you do not see this SWITCHNOW coupon discount!


Please contact me if I can be of additional assistance.

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Andrea

Sales and Support, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
1.954.252.3910

"point. click. ship" - that's SetupBuilder 5.5

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Andrea,

Do you have a 'deal' for annual maintenance renewal?

I just renewed mine but wouldn't mind paying for next year at a
discount...<g>

Paul

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Paul,

<g> Unfortunately no, sorry :-(

Friedrich is not a big fan of "special discounts". A "conference special"
(e.g. Cambridge Conference) is another story, but I think I can say that
Friedrich really hates "special offers".

The Anniversary Special (to celebrate the first SetupBuilder Version 5
anniversary) was my idea and I was only allowed to make a "SetupBuilder for
Clarion" and "SetupBuilder Developer Edition" with 6-month subscription
offer. Friedrich believes that, whenever a special discount is introduced,
existing and long standing customers are at a disadvantage. I convinced him
this is not the case for the above two offers.

While our Anniversary Special was a great success, I don't think we'll see a
Lindersoft special anytime soon. Perhaps this was the one and only special
ever. What should I say...Friedrich is the boss.

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Andrea

Sales and Support, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
1.954.252.3910

"point. click. ship" - that's SetupBuilder 5.5

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Can you explain how the web update works.

What kind of server does the vendor need?

Thanks,
George Riddell.

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George,

SetupBuilder Web Update provides an easy and royalty-free way to simply add
live Internet version updating to any program.

There are two cycles of tasks that you perform when using Web Update to
perform periodic updates over the Internet: Initial Deployment and Web
Update Deployment. Once you have performed the Initial Deployment steps for
your application, each time you want to distribute an update of that
application to your customers, you perform the Web Update Deployment cycle
of steps.

1. Initial Deployment

This gives your software the ability to check a specified location on the
Internet for updates. When you use Web Update for the first time, you are
just preparing your current software for future updates.

2. Web Update Deployment

If you have a new version for an existing web update enabled application
available, you create a Web Installer Update Package. You can use all
SetupBuilder functions in an Update Package. Of course, you can also use
binary patching (delta updates).

You can use the Auto Update Generator to automate this process. We are
using this feature to generate our own web updates for SetupBuilder. It
takes only 30 seconds to build web updates for our Professional and
Developer Edition product line (can update all released SetupBuilder 5
versions).

Once the application on the client machine determines a new update is
available, the update is downloaded and applied.

The web installer will also detect which files you need to have updated and
only downloads those that are out-of-date. Because a web installation
downloads only the pieces they need, you shorten their download time, and
reduce your web server load at the same time.

BTW, you only need a simple HTTP 1.1 compatible web server (e.g. Apache,
etc.).

Please contact me if I can be of additional assistance.

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Andrea

Sales and Support, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
1.954.252.3910

"point. click. ship" - that's SetupBuilder 5.5

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Andrea,

This sounds very good. But, like many developers, I pay for websites
somewhere on our planet. They have cPanel and use the LAMP stack. Can
web update operate from these platforms. These are Linux machines.

I suspect SetupBuilder needs a MS Server. Initial deployment and update
deployment are simple ideas that any developer can grasp. It is the
platform needed that is the mystery.

The phrase "BTW, you only need a simple HTTP 1.1 compatible web server
(e.g. Apache, etc.)." is what I would like you to expand upon.

Thanks,
George Riddell.

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George,

> This sounds very good. But, like many developers, I pay for websites
> somewhere on our planet. They have cPanel and use the LAMP stack. Can
> web update operate from these platforms. These are Linux machines.
>
> I suspect SetupBuilder needs a MS Server. Initial deployment and update
> deployment are simple ideas that any developer can grasp. It is the
> platform needed that is the mystery.

Pardon me for jumping in. No, you do NOT need a MS Server ;-) And Linux is
no problem. We are running FreeBSD UNIX operating system on our own
servers.

But of course, if you like, you can use a MS Server to power SetupBuilder
web update ;-) IIS is no problem.

> The phrase "BTW, you only need a simple HTTP 1.1 compatible web server
> (e.g. Apache, etc.)." is what I would like you to expand upon.

If you already have a web server to host your web site, then you have a
HTTP 1.x server. Even AOL supports this by default <g>. Quite a few
of our customers have a $2.95/month server to power their live updates.

You upload the files via FTP to your web server and web update communicates
via HTTP with your web server. Again, no Windows server is required!

If you have any further questions, please ask. I am here to help :)

Friedrich

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Friedrich Linder
CEO, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
+1.954.252.3910

"point. click. ship" - that's SetupBuilder 5

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Thanks for the explanation. Very simple indeed. You may want to
include these facts on your web pages. How it functions is not fully
described.

George Riddell.

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Also, I'm now a customer.

Thanks.

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A thrilled customer. I've just read the introduction and my brain is
burning with possibilities. I've not used it yet, but Friedrich is a
long time participant in these groups and all I've ever heard is praise.
I also know local developers that swear by it. I'm replacing INNO,
which has served me very well, but it is time to crank up the volume a
couple of notches.

Thanks,
George Riddell

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Hi George,

Thank you so much for your kind words and for licensing SetupBuilder
Developer Edition! You should have an email with the permanent subscription
key now. If there is any problem or question, just let me know. And we are
always open for suggestions for improving our software :)

Thanks,
Friedrich

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Friedrich Linder
CEO, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
+1.954.252.3910

"point. click. ship" - that's SetupBuilder 5

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Hi George,

Yes, I fully agree. We are already working on a new web site and we are
continuously working on improvements to our manual.

BTW, we'll make white papers, videos (thanks to Geoff Spillane) and other
resources available in the future.

Thanks,
Friedrich

--
Friedrich Linder
CEO, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
+1.954.252.3910

"point. click. ship" - that's SetupBuilder 5