DIVEMATERZA  Filemaker PR in full action ....

Below is the reply I've got from the support concerning upgrade policy.

I am quite unhappy, but I imagine the people who bought early September are fuming

" Thank you for contacting Customer Service. There is one low price (£29) for all users of Bento, rather than different prices for new and upgrade. Also, there is one price for Family Packs (£59).

When determining pricing for Bento we first considered a traditional approach with a higher initial price and a lower upgrade price. But since Bento is similar to other single-price Mac products such as iWork and iLife, we decided on a simple arrangement with one low price for everyone.

If you purchased Bento 1 or Bento 1 Family Pack between 14 September 2008 and 28 October 2008 you may qualify for a free copy of Bento 2. For details, please visit the FileMaker promotions page at: http://www.filemaker.co.uk/purchase/store/promos.html .

"

  
(Version 2.0v2)

DIVEMATERZA  Getting worse and worse for me.

Daemon getting out of control - might need a total rework instead of patching.

All effort seems to be directed at GUI instead of improving the engine, and yet the GUI is not that exciting.

Any of the β is far from RC quality

Maybe reaching β99 ......  
(Version 3.0b11)

DIVEMATERZA  I always considered Version 1 and then 1v2 to be a preview of a better product coming soon. I was happy to pay and still be a Guinea pig for their experiment. I am not discontented with version 1v2, but imagine my astonishment when no upgrade is available - full price.

Will I upgrade .... to pay again for the same soft with features they admit were missing on previous release, I don't think so !  
(Version 2.0v2)

DIVEMATERZA  I have been using Stock Spy since 1.50 now.

It is a very nice source of info on most markets

In some occasion the feed fetched is totally unrelated, but it is not a big nuisance.

One big drawback is the lack of a " check for update " feature.

If you want the latest version you need to ask support from the developper.

Recommended  
(Version 1.58)

DIVEMATERZA  Thank you. What a joy to have it back on 10.5  
(Version 1.5)

DIVEMATERZA  I will wait for the next β. I did uninstall today, Although the high CPU usage of the daemon was resolved it was still generating a continuous disk activity bringing the system to crawl.

all back to normal now without the daemon.  
(Version 3.0b9)

DIVEMATERZA  Restore you firmaware using iTunes  
(Version 0.4.1)