[WebDNA] Re: New Ownership for WebDNA!

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2008

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texte = I wanted to reply to this email from Dennis: we have decided, after a long debate, that we will not offer direct consulting, development or hosting services in order not to compete against our customers. We hope this will be compensated by higher sales. Nevertheless, we will maintain a list of "Preferred Partners" and "Alliance Partners" on our site, favoring our investors, good customers and anybody helpful to the company.- chrisPresident============================WebDNA Software Corporation16192 Coastal HighwayLewes, DE 19958On Jun 27, 2008, at 0:42, Dennis J. Bonsall, Jr. wrote:>> a check with many zeros :-)>> Nobody ever wants my checks when I fill them out with a lot of > zeros... I must be doing something wrong... :-/>> I guess I just figured that SMSI wouldn't give it up at a reasonable > price (you guys did pay a reasonable price, didn't you?) I figured > they were more interested in owning the intellectual property, than > actually doing anything with what they considered a dead product. > My though was that since they weren't going to be able to get out of > it what they spent to buy it, that they would rather write it off > and kill it than sell it at (what they considered) a loss. Since so > many have abandoned the platform, its overall value has diminished, > but I figured SMSI would be too stubborn to admit that they had > screwed up.>> I made a prediction on this very list when SMSI first bought > WebDNA. At the time, people were complaining that SMSI was, in > essence, competing with us developers over customers, by offering > WebDNA hosting and development direct to website customers. My > prediction was that since SMSI was using the product for their own > customers, that they would care about the future of the product, and > continuously update it (http://search.smithmicro.com/TalkListArchive/DetailResults.tpl?command=search&db=webdna-talk.db&eqIDdata=14256&max=1 > ). I was dead wrong. SMSI did give us one (or was it two) major > new versions of WebDNA, but, in hindsight, they were the worst thing > that ever happened to this platform. I'm glad it's now in the hands > of people who care (passionately) about the product.>> Thanks for seeing this through.>> Dennis Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

I wanted to reply to this email from Dennis: we have decided, after a long debate, that we will not offer direct consulting, development or hosting services in order not to compete against our customers. We hope this will be compensated by higher sales. Nevertheless, we will maintain a list of "Preferred Partners" and "Alliance Partners" on our site, favoring our investors, good customers and anybody helpful to the company.- chrisPresident============================WebDNA Software Corporation16192 Coastal HighwayLewes, DE 19958On Jun 27, 2008, at 0:42, Dennis J. Bonsall, Jr. wrote:>> a check with many zeros :-)>> Nobody ever wants my checks when I fill them out with a lot of > zeros... I must be doing something wrong... :-/>> I guess I just figured that SMSI wouldn't give it up at a reasonable > price (you guys did pay a reasonable price, didn't you?) I figured > they were more interested in owning the intellectual property, than > actually doing anything with what they considered a dead product. > My though was that since they weren't going to be able to get out of > it what they spent to buy it, that they would rather write it off > and kill it than sell it at (what they considered) a loss. Since so > many have abandoned the platform, its overall value has diminished, > but I figured SMSI would be too stubborn to admit that they had > screwed up.>> I made a prediction on this very list when SMSI first bought > WebDNA. At the time, people were complaining that SMSI was, in > essence, competing with us developers over customers, by offering > WebDNA hosting and development direct to website customers. My > prediction was that since SMSI was using the product for their own > customers, that they would care about the future of the product, and > continuously update it (http://search.smithmicro.com/TalkListArchive/DetailResults.tpl?command=search&db=webdna-talk.db&eqIDdata=14256&max=1 > ). I was dead wrong. SMSI did give us one (or was it two) major > new versions of WebDNA, but, in hindsight, they were the worst thing > that ever happened to this platform. I'm glad it's now in the hands > of people who care (passionately) about the product.>> Thanks for seeing this through.>> Dennis Christophe Billiottet

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