Malice, prejudice or ignorance, maybe even emergent behavior like you see
with ants, but not a conspiracy. However, that doesn't stop many people
from trying to dismiss questions or critique as 'conspiracy'.
Anyway, in this particular context, the product and company in question
have been around a long time. Functionally and appearance-wise, that
product is a superset of an existing crossplatform product sold by the
same company. So it's not a case of a small startup trying to get
established. It's a decision simply to support a specific platform.
Furthermore, the nature of those specific products means that researchers,
both corporate and academic, are the main users. They are a population
where MS Windows has a much lower marketshare than in the general
population.
All that can be learned from the company web site and a pair of web
searches.
Personally, I recall that when negotiating an organization-wide site
license for the cross-platform products above, the local vendor was
pushing the MS-only one to the point where he eventually made misleading
and incorrect statements. He also tried to do an end run around me and
deal with my boss at the time. To me that smacks of an agenda and, again,
indicative of a technical, contractual and/or ideological problem
resulting in being unable to or unwilling to expand to other platforms.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Steven Shelton wrote:
Lars D. Noodén wrote:
To me it is indicative of a technical, contractual and/or ideological
problem resulting in being unable to or unwilling to expand to other
platforms. That kind of inflexibility tends not to survive in business.
Or it could be a market analysis decision: "because XX% of users use Windows
and only YY% use linux, Mac, etc. we can predict that developing and
promoting a version for those other platforms would cost us $Z.ZZ per unit,
and we would make $V.VV per unit. Since $V.VV is less than $Z.ZZ it doesn't
make sense financially to support another platform."
*shrug*
I'm about as anti-MS as one can get, but not everything is a conspiracy.
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