I understand IA's logic, that by forcing the branding more people see it, and more potential customers. If it were a freeware, or low cost program, that would make sense. But for a thousand dollars I shouldnt have to pimp IA. Would you use a doctor who forced you to have his name tattooed on your forhead after giving you a perfect facelift ?
It's a complete shame too. From what I see, the program is top notch, it does everything I would ever need, and gave me some ideas as well. Their customer support folks have responded within minutes whenever I have contacted them. The program even works like Delphi (my native programming language)
But when I get ...
"You can remove this by becoming a technology partner. Unfortunately that program is rather costly at $4,995"
as a response, its kind of a deal breaker.
at least I had someone else to blame it on
I'm glad to hear that worked for you. Unfortunately for me its not an option. If auditors or IT department heads dont think I'm in complete control of my program and it's installation, it just doesnt get installed. If they know IA and trust it, then I'm fine, but if they dont then its up to me to resolve it, not for them to learn about IA.
Personally, I think the sales they would loose would be negate the potential customers they might gain, all the while alienating the customers they do have.
I unfortunately have to look for other alternatives. In the end I might just HAVE to use IA (it is a nice package after all), but without this resolved I would never be a happy, or loyal, customer.