Re: WebDNA Book?
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texte = >> I've come to the conclusion that nothing will ever come of webdna >> unless a big company buys it and puts some money into marketing it. >> Apparently neither PCS nor SMSI have understood how important >> professional marketing is to a truly great software product ... or >> maybe they just cannot afford it. Either way, I'm afraid that this >> software will forever be limited to the few of us who have discovered >> it and love it ... while the rest of the world continues to rely on >> other solutions. > >I disagree Ken, I believe SMSI have progressed a huge amount in the last 12 >months, we are seeing some excellent response to bugs & feature requests and >by the looks of the v5 posts I've read there are some enterprise level >features coming.This doesn't mean they know how to market it!I haven't seen anything new at all as far as marketing is concerned. Sure, they build great software -- but if only one in 10,000 developers ever hear about it or give it a try, what is its real future?My point is simply that marketing is even more important than the software itself. If the success of Windows is not the world's biggest example of this fact, then I don't know what is ...I don't think webdna is going to disappear any time soon, but my gut feeling -- based on everything I've seen so far -- is that this software may never get a decent marketing budget or the kind of expert marketing approach it should have ... and for this reason I think it will always remain as one of a handful of small players in the field. Sincerely, Kenneth Grome--------------------------------------------------- WebDNA Professional Training and Development Center 175 J. Llorente Street +63 (32) 255-6921 Cebu City, Cebu 6000 kengrome@webdna.net Philippines http://www.webdna.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>> I've come to the conclusion that nothing will ever come of webdna >> unless a big company buys it and puts some money into marketing it. >> Apparently neither PCS nor SMSI have understood how important >> professional marketing is to a truly great software product ... or >> maybe they just cannot afford it. Either way, I'm afraid that this >> software will forever be limited to the few of us who have discovered >> it and love it ... while the rest of the world continues to rely on >> other solutions. > >I disagree Ken, I believe SMSI have progressed a huge amount in the last 12 >months, we are seeing some excellent response to bugs & feature requests and >by the looks of the v5 posts I've read there are some enterprise level >features coming.This doesn't mean they know how to market it!I haven't seen anything new at all as far as marketing is concerned. Sure, they build great software -- but if only one in 10,000 developers ever hear about it or give it a try, what is its real future?My point is simply that marketing is even more important than the software itself. If the success of Windows is not the world's biggest example of this fact, then I don't know what is ...I don't think webdna is going to disappear any time soon, but my gut feeling -- based on everything I've seen so far -- is that this software may never get a decent marketing budget or the kind of expert marketing approach it should have ... and for this reason I think it will always remain as one of a handful of small players in the field. Sincerely, Kenneth Grome--------------------------------------------------- WebDNA Professional Training and Development Center 175 J. Llorente Street +63 (32) 255-6921 Cebu City, Cebu 6000 kengrome@webdna.net Philippines http://www.webdna.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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