On Monday 27 May 2002 22:21, Endre Palfi wrote: > Hi. I have given some tought to your project over the past months and > I never liked that self-registration idea. It seems like you are > trying to provide the technology and the retailing environment and > are not doing either one particularly well. I think you would have a > good and usefull product if it worked, but I remember from experience > that installation was very cumbersome. Production environments (ISPs > and ASPs) only use products that provide snappy flawless installation > and equally snappy archiving and restoration. > > The correct way of doing what you do is to remove the > self-registration features altogether and provide some simple > provisioning scripts to manipulate the database. Once you have that, > package it properly with installation scripts, provisioning script > documentation and take it to ISPs and ASPs and have them integrate it > into their service networks as they see fit. Usually ISPs and ASPs > already have the end-user interfaces and they want to expand it by > adding more products and services to it. Since 99% of the value in > what you do is in the DynIP service everything else is just > distraction. Kind of like having a kiosk on the street for selling > light bulbs. You make light-bulbs. Package it the way other light > bulb companies package their products and put them where the other > light bulbs are so that people can buy it and you can receive the > product. > > When you have that, promote is as hard as you can to generate sales > and recover expenses so that you can move on to developing the next > technology or refining what you have "profitably". > > You will have a lot more success with your product that way. >
this guy is right - i want my money back! *lol* -- regards Thilo _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm -- GnuDIP Mailing List http://gnudip2.sourceforge.net/gnudip-www/#mailinglist