> Just as we're free to criticize their distribution and marketing
> decisions,
> MM is free to disregard our freely offered marketing advice. I can
> only add
> that MM is marketing Flex the way a lot of enterprise products are
> marketed.
> Try downloading an evaluation version of a typical enterprise portal,
> KM or
> ECMS product - you'll typically have to jump through flaming hoops to
> get a
> time-limited evaluation CD.
Yet another reason why many software consultants are more familar with
and more likely to recommend open source software: because they can
easily get a copy to develop on and learn with.
Sure, software vendors can do what they want. But if I can't easily get
a copy, I won't be able to tell my clients any more than they could
read themselves on the website.
And yes, paying less than $10 for a trial copy does count as easily
obtainable, I just object to the marketing double-speak. If they want
to keep closer tabs on who's downloading it, fine by me. Just say so.
It's not like they don't make you register for downloads in the first
place...
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Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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