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When I can depend night and day on my DSL ISP server,
When I can depend day and night on the ISP server for the data provider,
When I can depend day and night on the bandwidth available to the data
provider,
When I can depend day and night on the complete network server farm
that the data provider is contracted to,
When all this works with no exposed ports on my machines,
When I know day and night that all the software that performs these
interactions performs without any gliches and requires no resynching
or distractions to my trading,
When all this is coupled with a trading software that allows me to
take advantage of everything I need my trading software to do,
And when I can depend on a support staff to answer earnestly-thought-
out-before-asking questions and to know their own equipment better
than I......
That's when I'll heed your warning.
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the shrink-wrapped software business is history.
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That must be a tough statement to swallow for all the people who
shelled out big bucks, builds, and time on TS2k last year
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Time to get out (while the gettin's good).
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Maybe so. But last I was told, my TS4 still works until 2026 and I
understand there are still some folks in Dallas who'd be happy to
accomodate me with a new breed of shrink wrap.
still hangin' around Dodge for now,
dbs
editorial@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Look, fellas, whether you like it or not, the shrink-wrapped software business is history. Time to get out (while the gettin's good).
>
> Omega: The first trading ASP.
>
> ---- you wrote:
> > Yeah, Bob. After reading your initial post, I found myself trying to
> > reconcile his statement "we don't want to be better, just different" (which
> > is full of problems in itself) with his statement "we want to be an internet
> > broker". Christ! What an idiot!
> >
> > Kent
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Fulks <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Monte C. Smith <mcs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Omega-List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sunday, May 14, 2000 6:01 PM
> > Subject: Re: Do it at OmegaWorld
> >
> >
> > At 12:30 AM -0700 5/14/00, Monte C. Smith wrote:
> >
> > >Closed Friday at about 2 1/2....a 'little' off its high of 12 1/2 last
> > >July. Looking suspiciously unlike a 'buying opportunity.' Perhaps
> > >management should examine (to say REexamine would presuppose something
> > >that probably isn't true) their 'big beliefs' about not trying "to
> > >identify or create products that are better than existing solutions."
> > >There is a great deal of blatant stupidity in many corporate environs.
> >
> >
> > Their apparent strategy certainly appears to be different than any I
> > have run across:
> >
> > > Replace a decent product with a new version that is unusable
> > for at least a year after introduction.
> >
> > > Piss off your most influential customers with buggy products and
> > poor support.
> >
> > > Shift your business model from one where you have a virtual
> > monopoly to one where you are one of a thousand players, many with
> > a thousand time more resources, in a business that is rapidly
> > becoming a commodity.
> >
> > I must be missing something obvious...
> >
> >
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