[Lexicog] TshwaneLex trialware

[David Joffe]

I'd like to clarify here, as this post by Chinedu gives several 
false impressions. Firstly, we at no stage requested that data had 
to be sent to us or 'uploaded to our servers' - we do not do this! 
TshwaneLex is an off-the-shelf product and most of our clients 
manage their own data entirely - we definitely do not expect clients 
to send us data unless absolutely necessary. At the time, based on 
your enquiries, we made an OPTIONAL offer to include some paid 
support and backup service along with the software license, but you 
were welcome to take just the license. Secondly, I don't understand 
your remark that "nothing came of it" when you "tried" to obtain 
TshwaneLex, as our website has for years had an order form on it 
('open 24 hrs a day, 365 days a year') - you've just never filled it 
in.

Also, we do make (and have always made) low-cost academic (non-
commercial) licenses available, as well as low-cost licenses for 
those working on endangered languages. Academic licenses can be 
ordered anytime through our online order form, so it's false to 
state that TshwaneLex is "not for academics". We have many academic 
license users.

At the time you enquired about TshwaneLex, we did not have 
evaluation versions available, but we have more recently started 
making evaluation versions available - if you're interested, they 
can be requested via our website contact form.

 - David

--
TshwaneDJe Human Language Technology
http://tshwanedje.com/


On 6 Sep 2006 at 7:30, neduchi at netscape.net wrote:

> 
> 
> I tried obtaining an educational version of the program some years
> back, but nothing came out of it. I was requested to make available
> the data I would be working on, to be uploaded on their server, and to
> also pay an additional fee for the service (that I would not need in
> the first place). And these conditions are without my having even
> given the program a trial.
> 
> My impression is that the program is more for 'corporate' publishing
> houses, and not for academics or those of us that are cash-strapped.
> 
> Chinedu Uchechukwu
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wayne_leman at sil.org
> To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:37 AM
> Subject: [Lexicog] TshwaneLex trialware
> 
> Does anyone know if it is possible to download a version of TshwaneLex to
> try it before we buy it? I would like to be able to try it to know if it
> serves my needs. I would be happy using crippleware or time-limited
> features, as long as I can have a fair go at seeing how the program works
> and how my brain adjusts to its learning curve.
> 
> For those not familiar with TshwaneLex, its website is:
> 
> http://tshwanedje.com/tshwanelex/
> 
> Wayne
> -----
> Wayne Leman
> Cheyenne dictionary online:
> http://www11.asphost4free.com/cheyennedictionary/default. htm 





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