Last Friday we made UltraToolBar open-source (BSD licencse) and freely available on RBDevZone. Also look for a postmortem article about UltraToolBar in the next issue of REALbasic Developer Magazine.

In the few days since being available, there have been over 100 downloads of UltraToolBar and we now have over 150 registered users on RBDevZone. What this means, I don’t know yet.

I’ve also had a few questions come up lately. One is “will RBUnit be made open-source, too?” The short answer is that yes, RBUnit will soon also be available as open-source.

I’ve also been asked why I’m releasing our formerly non-free software as free (not that they’re complaining). There are a variety of reasons, but the primary reason is that these products, although fun to work on, just don’t generate enough revenue. But I didn’t want them to just disappear since a lot of people use them, so that is why they are now free. But free software is not too useful if there is no community to go to for support, which is why they are part of RBDevZone.

Essentially, I’m moving LogicalVue away from selling developer tools and components. We may still create something developer-related, but it will end up on RBDevZone instead of being an official LogicalVue product. Instead I’m going to focus LogicalVue on vertical market software that will be much more specialized but also more expensive.

I’m also preparing to do some additional consulting work. I’ll be trying to drum up some work while I’m at the REAL World conference next month.