JJZolx wrote: > 've said in the past that an established audio company might be a good > candidate for producing a Squeezebox capable player. Probably the > biggest obstacle to that, however, is the current state of the server > software and the astronomical costs of both supporting it and of > maintaining it. > Is the maintenance cost really that bad ? How many full time developers have Logitech had during the last 2-3 years working with maintenance that really had to be done ? To me it kind of feels like most of the work during last years have either been various kind of refactoring and Revue related stuff which was doomed before it started. Looking back two years in time, it feels like there have been less than one full time developer working on the server in average. There were obviously a bit more during development of the Touch, but it's pretty normal that more resources is needed when you develop a new product which requires big changes.
SBS 7.5.3 is about 2 years old, what "must have" functionality has been done in the server after that ? My feeling is the cost isn't really about things that had to be done, it's more related to bad management and prioritization. Are you sure the UPnP server software of your choice required less maintenance and support during the last two years ? Support is another matter, but I've got the feeling that this community has handled a lot of support issues and only a few people have actually taken the time to call the official Logitech support even though we have tried to push more people to do it during the last years. However, generally I agree that the server software probably don't have a future outside Logitech, but Logitech could still maintain the server and license the ability for third parties to produce players. This will of course not happen because Logitech is really ha hardware company and not a software company, so it probably never really made sense to them to let third parties produce the hardware. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
