Re: FS: Zemax Key

West Coast Engineering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike) wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have an extra Zemax EE key for sale.  Zemax allows you to transfer a
> >license.
> >
> >I have to get the exact date but I think this key is current through
> >May of 2003.  $500 in support will bring it current.
> >
> >I am looking for $2500.
> >
> >You can either run the version it will run and save $1,000 on Zemax EE
> >or upgrade $500 and save $500.  A new copy currently sells for $3500
> >
> >
> >email me if interested.
> 
> This is an intelligence test, right?  I hope I passed.
> 
> Why would anyone want to spend anything like that amount of money on a
> program so inferior to CODE-V which has not even been validated
> against CODE-V ( ORA won't sell him a copy ). At least everything in
> ENTERPRISE PRO has been validated against the industry leader CODE-V
> or against some other independent source. We don't release anything
> unless it has been independently validated.
> 
> Instead, for a one time price of $995.00 you can get ENTERPRISE PRO
> (www.westcoastengineering.com)  with no hardware key and life time
> email user support and lifetime yearly upgrades and for an additional
> $75.00/year you can get 7 day per week, 7 am to 7 pm PST, friendly
> phone support from the author of the code (who knows exactly how and
> why the program works and who premises never to tell you "it is in the
> manual" and who will never steer you wrong with incorrect
> information). BTY, the $75/year includes full source code to protect
> your investment.
> 
> We will discuss blanket multi-user licenses  and we do on-plant
> training (quoted on a case by case basis).
> 
> At West Coast Engineering, we believe that no software should cost two
> or three times the price of the machine it runs on. To pay that much
> out of one's pocket, is stupid, stupid, stupid unless you are going
> for the ultimate in optical design codes, CODE-V. 
> 
> You will be able to run the ENTERPRISE PRO on multiple machines as the
> license is sold to a person, not to a machine. You can try ENTERPRISE
> by downloading the free version ENTERPRISE SE  from the web site
> listed above.
> 
> Transferring an Enterprise Pro  license from one person to another is
> also cheap, $100.00, one time, not $2500.00 for a key. :-) :-) :-)
> 
> At West Coast Engineering we don't do your optical desgn, we make your
> optical design affordable.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> West Coast Engineering

Please expand on this concept of software validation. You can not buy
a copy of CodeV you rent it. Did I get you right: 1. everything in
your software was validated by comparision to CodeV output. 2. Zemax
has not been compared to CodeV.

Has Zemax been compared to OSLO or something else?

Expand about CodeV not being willing to lease CodeV to Ken Moore.

Sincerely,

Don Janeczko