At 08:13 AM 12/31/2001 -0800, you wrote: >At 06:31 AM 12/31/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >It just seems funny that with things like automobiles, fashion, music, food, > >etc. that once a product is slightly old or outdated, they do not make it > >disappear, but rather sell at good discounts... certainly would like to see > >that common prevailing mentality that exists everywhere else apply to > >software... > >All the things you list are hard goods. They are physical things that are >in inventory. Professional Software is Intellectual Property, not a package >that sits on the shelf in Fry's.
I want to point out that music is not a hard good, it is intellectual property. Compact Discs, on the other hand, are hard goods. And both music and software commonly come on compact discs. >If you have a ton of fish that you caught >and it is starting to smell, you have to sell it or you lose the money you >spent catching it. Software isn't that way. We don't sit on thousands of >boxes of CF in Ohio and send them out as we go. When we have a new version, >there is NO old stock. :hmm: That makes it sound like there is someone sitting somewhere with a CD Burner who will burn a CD each time someone wants to buy ColdFusion. I would have expected that Macromedia (Microsoft / Lotus / whoever else ) manufactures and packages software (I.E. CDs) in bulk, just like a record company does with records. If Macromedia (or Allaire) has (had) a way to precisely compute the demand numbers so that they can create a supply which is only equal to that of the demand, they should get out of the software business and sell the formula. >If car manufacturers could work it out so that there was NONE of the >previous models on car lots when they bring out the new lines, you can bet >they would. Same with food. If you have a restaurant and buy beef, you >really want to sell it the day you buy it and not offer it as a stew the >next day. When PolyGram has 10,000 Eagles albums that didn't sell, they >have to sell them as super values. It just is not the same as pro software. >(Games of course are exactly like the consumer products you mention.) -- Jeffry Houser | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: Reboog711 | ICQ: 5246969 | Fax / Phone: 860-223-7946 -- DotComIt: Database Driven Web Data My Book: Instant ColdFusion 5 | http://www.instantcoldfusion.com My New Book: ColdFusion: A Beginner's Guide due out next February -- Far Cry Fly, Alternative Folk Rock http://www.farcryfly.com | http://www.mp3.com/FarCryFly -- I'm jealous of everyone who knows more than me ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
