TJ's business model is certainly unique.
NEVER before have I seen a
business owner / developer directly
involved with each and every customer
thru a forum like this.
TJ deserves praise for tightly integrating
increasingly sophisticated
functionality into the AB product.
But
the AB customer community deserve a great deal of praise for
innovative
ideas that TJ ultimately adapted to AB.
Fred is a free-thinker who
introduced us to the concepts of portfolio
backtesting and PSO which have
since been tightly integrated into AB.
William Peters introduced the
'wizard' concept for non-programmer's
which has since been improved
upon and tightly integrated into AB by TJ.
Howard Bandy's published
analytical approaches using AB as a platform
have resulted in new AB
functionality that TJ has incorporated into
the product.
And there
are quite a few other users whose ideas / suggestions TJ has
implemented
into the AB product. And of course Dimitris was the
ultimate 'end-user' in
years past who could show us all how to
implement new features of
AB.
None of this takes away from TJ's development skills, but it
is
important to acknowledge the contributions of the entire AB
community
in the evolution of AB.