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It would certainly be great to have an alternative to
omega, but all of that of david vs. goliath seems very
nice in paper, but it rarely (if ever) works.
> 1) an open programming platform with non-proprietary
> coding
It requires almost a genius to be at the right place,
at the right time, with the right contacts to develope
a good enough product-marketting-alliances-etc that
will not leave you with a big '-' in your bank account
and a few people with free software... I'll explain as
I go. That is why there has been one Sun, one Red Hat,
and little (if any) others out there that have done
anything significant out of thousands of companies in
the market.
> 2) good technical support that caters to both
> amateur and professional -
There is good support because its one person
supporting ten guys that are using the product. You
almost have to wish (as a user) for the product to not
be successful in order to maintain the level of
support. As soon as you need more people to support
more users, quality of support suffers. But if the
product does not sell and it does not become popular,
it probably means that there is some problem with it.
This is the first catch 22
> 3) continuous, reliable and timely upgrades....not
> ones that make you
Similar to point 2, if the popularity of the product
grows, more problems(bugs) and suggestions (wish
lists) will come up, and upgrade frequency and
timeliness will be hit.
Also, it is all very manageble when dealing with start
up numbers, but a 'david' will probably not have a
good quality assurance staff (if it will have qa at
all) and beta testers get hit with all the big bugs in
the first beta, the medium bugs in the second beta,
and small bugs in the third. Thus ending in delaying
significantly the release of anything new. That is
what apparently is hapenning now with MB.
THis is catch 22 #2.
In general, every aspect of the software business will
present that problem of "its good because its small,
but if it IS good it will not be small for long, and
it will turn bad when its not small anymore"...
These are my 2 pennies, anyways...
H
--- "M. Simms" <prosys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> God Bless Mark for attempting this challenge. Omega
> certainly has an
> impressive installed base of customers and quite a
> marketing "machine".
> (Wish they had a tech support machine !!!)
> These will be difficult to overcome.
> However, the advent of the 'net has made the David
> vs. Goliath battle more
> favorable for the Davids of the world. Witness the
> current battle between
> Sun Micro and Microsoft.....hate to say it, but Sun
> is winning in the
> cross-platform programming battle with Java.
> Microsoft still does not have a
> response.....and have you seen the SUNW stock price
> lately ?? At all of the
> web dev seminars, there is nary a Microsoft word
> being spoken....you hardly
> know they exist anymore in the internet development
> world !!! The internet
> fosters change....for the good.
>
> If Omega continues in its modus operandi, TraderWare
> will succeed. Why ?:
>
> 1) an open programming platform with non-proprietary
> coding - this invites
> many addons and enhancements...example:
> I envision someone creating actual VB
> code-generation and building systems
> from intelligent specs that are input via
> user-friendly prompts and
> screens.....not cold, lifeless prompts.
>
> 2) good technical support that caters to both
> amateur and professional -
> each have drastically different needs. Omega is
> ignoring the sophisticated
> user...a big mistake.
>
> 3) continuous, reliable and timely upgrades....not
> ones that make you
> paranoid before installation !!
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexander Levitin [mailto:alevitin@xxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 12:42 PM
> > To: Mark Brown; Omega List
> > Cc: traderware-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: TraderWareX Release
> >
> >
> > Comrades,
> >
> > If Mark has discovered that not all software
> release delays are due to the
> > evil wills of Bills it is OK. My major problems
> with Bills (both Cruz and
> > Gates) is not that software is later then I or
> they wanted, not that it is
> > not as sophisticated as I would like it to see,
> but that the released
> > software does not work at all, does not do what it
> supposed to do.
> >
> > I could survive the chart that does not extend "to
> the right" or a
> > spreadsheet that have only 6000 rows. But if the
> software stops in the
> > middle of trading or the spreadsheet crashes my
> computer that no "king's
> > men" could get it back that is bad.
> >
> > I realize that software developers had to eat and
> to buy baby cloths and
> > have "evil" competitors standing by and ready to
> "eat them alive".
> > Combination of those pressures plus the absence of
> competitors
> > leads to the
> > release of software that does not work.
> >
> > If our Mark is in unique position that his and his
> dog bread (with or
> > without butter) come from the other source than
> software selling and he
> > could afford to make software to work before it
> released to us,
> > then we all
> > are in unique position to profit from that unusual
> situation.
> >
> > Therefore all of us individually and collectively
> should encourage Mark to
> > take as much time as necessary to make sure that
> his first version of
> > software works before putting it on the market. If
> Mark could attract
> > enough talents to make his software innovative and
> will stick with policy
> > to release the software only when it works he will
> build the reputation
> > that will bring him recognition and eventual
> success (providing he could
> > live long enough financially).
> >
> > In any case, I wish him the best.
> >
> > Comrade Alex.
> >
> >
> > At 06:56 PM 11/1/99 -0600, Mark Brown wrote:
> > >TraderWareX release was originally scheduled for
> Nov. 1st release. It's
> > >hard to estimate these target dates that far in
> advance, however
> > we are very
> > >close to our first commercial release. We are
> currently in
> > beta and have
> > >made tremendous headway due to the diligence and
> feedback of
> > those dedicated
> > >testers. I sincerely thank everyone who has
> chosen to
> > participate to help
> > >us build a better product.
> > >
> > >I hope to make the release announcement Very
> Soon! I just felt
> > I should be
> > >responsible enough to inform you where we are
> rather than leave you
> > >wondering what is going on.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Mark Brown
> >
> >
>
>
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