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Carbide.C++ - How to purchase it?

tote_b5 | 22 November, 2006 12:20

We had to purchase a few Carbide.C++ licenses for our company - the first ones, actually. Therefore, I visited Forum
Nokia/Tools/SDK section in order to find the right link that I can click on to purchase the licenses. The problem that there wasn't
any such link. :( I could have downloaded the IDE, but I had already done it by then. I've also opened up the IDE (with a temporary
license) to see if it contains any menu items that reveal anything with regards to ordering licenses. Even though there is a
submenu under Help/Carbide licenses, which contains some menu items for installing, viewing and even borrowing licenses, but
nothing mentioned about buying them. So, after failing to find out how to buy this software, I decided to search for it on the Web!

First, I searched for "order buy Carbide.C++", again, on Forum Nokia - without any success. Okay, there was a bunch of links that I
could have chosen from, but it was not intuitive to pick up the right one.

Then I decided to use the ultimate tool with the same seach query: Google. It was the second link that worked (the first was NewLC - Hi, Eric, how are you doing?:). Surprise, what kind of link was it? A link to a FN Discussion Board topic! Hey, isn't it in the
interest of Nokia to sell their product?! Then, imho, it shouldn't be a *discussion board topic* that advertises it the best (i.e.
being the most popular link) the way of purchasing Carbide.C++, no? Reaching the end of the discussion it finally turned out that
there was a link that anybody can use. Btw, the links mentioned above are as follows:
- Buying Carbide Dev
- Forum Nokia PRO - Company Registration

Another interesting thing is that you have to be a Forum Nokia PRO member for buying the product. That's good, but I was afraid of
the same thing than a few poster were, too: FN PRO registration costs thousands of euros. Per year. Well, I haven't yet completed
the process of purchasing our licenses, however, I'm just hoping that Mike Trujillo (from Forum Nokia) is right: "There is no charge for setting up the account".

Any comments?

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Re: Carbide.C++ - How to purchase it?

maahonen | 23/11/2006, 07:59

I have to admit I wasn't aware the situation was that bad. I'll have a chat with our marketing folks and see what we can do.

//markus

http://blogs.s60.com/creatingcarbidecpp

Re: Carbide.C++ - How to purchase it?

tote_b5 | 23/11/2006, 08:14

tote_b5 Thanks, Markus! I hope that they will change it to be more intuitive and easier to buy your product. ;-)

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Re: Carbide.C++ - How to purchase it?

Mike Trujillo | 23/11/2006, 08:17

Hi,

I am very sorry for all the confusion on the estore. I just submitted seveal changes to many of the web pages trying to address your (and many other users') concerns.

The correct link to create a free "Estore Only" account is at:
https://pro.forum.nokia.com/registerCandidateSetup1.do?isNew=true

The Forum Nokia PRO site does a very good job at hiding this link. If you to to https://pro.forum.nokia.com and click on the estore - you can see items in the store. When you add items into your shopping cart you will be asked to log in - or to create an account.

Regards,

Mike Trujillo
Product Marketing Mgr - Carbide

Re: Carbide.C++ - How to purchase it?

tote_b5 | 23/11/2006, 09:16

tote_b5 Thanks for your efforts, Mike. Now I see that it was worth writing my post. :)

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