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*

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