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Because Avangate does not reactivate the old account nor they activate a new one (are all account managers on holiday?), new licenses can still not be purchased… am I willing to migrate the keygen to a new system/vendor?

I wish you all a Happy New Year!

I have just released SQL-Front 5.1.4.16 on the download page which is only a renamed version of the last official former MySQL-Front release.

Merry Christmas

Thank you very much for all your comments and thoughts posted here in the blog and sent to me via email. There are many things I have to think about…

What I will do for now is temporarily rename the program back to “SQL-Front” and put it on a download page within the next few days. I will also try to reactivate the feature where registered users can request a lost license key via web form and I will provide customers with the opportunity to purchase new licenses.

Yours faithfully,

Christian

Dear customers,
dear users,
dear friends,
dear everyone,

I’ll try to make it short: my name is Christian and I’m a friend of Nils, the previous developer of the former MySQL-Front program. First of all, Nils will no longer maintain and support this project and his decision is final. Because I think that this program is a damn good piece of software, I don’t want to let it die and fall into oblivion. I am highly motivated to go on supervising this project and continue the development for all of us, but the problem is that I personally do not have that great expertise and knowledge of MySQL and databases. Yes, I am in possession of the sourcecode, but since the future of the former MySQL-Front program is still unclear to me, I want to invite everyone of you to post your ideas and comments, make suggestions or just discuss what makes you think why MF is “your” favorite choice in using MySQL gui applications.

At the moment I’m aware of the following scenarios:

• change the product name and let the program be as it is, but without that great quality of support in the past
• change the product name and make it freeware (will it suffer from lack of development/support?)
• make it open source (problem: the program uses and depends on several non-free/non-oss (commercial) third-party components and toolboxes)
• port the project to Lazarus (much work to port all the components an toolboxes from Delphi to Lazarus because they are not binary-compatible – but it may become someday platform independent)
• give the sourcecode to the HeidiSQL community
• any other points or ideas…?

I look forward to hear from you .

Best regards,

Christian