Kevin Miller wrote:
>
> On 19/4/00 7:27 pm, Mark Lacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Kevin,
> >
> > I understood your previous reply that you do not want to release "what the MC
> > King Size Team is going to cook in the next months" so as to alert your
> > competition. My question is different.
> >
> > I am hoping for a summary of what the users of Metacard have volunteered.
> > After all, the survey questions were public and as members of the list we have
> > all voluntarily participated. So without telling the world what your own and
> > or Metacards plans are, wouldn't you be willing to share an overall summary of
> > what we individually have shared with you. I believe the benefit to the
> > community for this information would be knowing how our own needs compare the
> > the needs of other developers and opening the way possibly for more third
> > party efforts like The Flexible Learning Company's "Chartmaker" and your own
> > outstanding Xternals collection. Your sharing of our data can also avoid the
> > need for every potential third party developer to initiate their own survey to
> > the list and thus take up more of each others valuable time.
> >
> > Still, just suggesting and hoping :-)
>
> I appreciate this argument. But, I'm afraid the answer is still the same.
> This kind of market research is not something we want to share with
> competing vendors. It is in effect a list of MetaCard's strengths and
> weaknesses, valuable information for improving the product only. MetaCard
> corp. has allowed Tuviah access to the results under NDA because of his
> interest in updating the externals collection. But we're not aware of any
> other developers spending a lot of time on 3rd party tools at this time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin
>
> > With Regards,
> >
> > Mark Lacy
> > LetterPress Software
>
> Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.xworlds.com/>
> Cross Worlds Computing, MetaCard Distributors, Custom Development.
> Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707.
Hi Mark, the List,
As a longtime user of XTalk's languages (Hypercard, SK8, Supercard,
Metacard), i know only i newer found the technicals limits of those very
great tools. Each time, i needed to solve a problem, i founded one to
four different solutions to each, even if, at end, only one was the
finest, clean, fast running and elegant... After some great projects, i
understood that the only limits i would be able to find in using XTalk's
could be the limits of my own ability to imagine the concepts i need to
extract more and more power from HC, SC and so on...
I'm sure there is more power in MetaCard 2.3 than i think and, each
time, my best job is to get all what i need from it, day after day, to
bring to the clients cleanest web design solutions than they're
expecting for. The clients are happy to get magic stuffs and i'm too to
see them. The clients ask me about solutions not about how i can do so
or so. If i had to explain how i build apps, i could become a teatcher
or a consultant but as developer, i would be out of the way in a few
months...
As we, all, are the Metacard Team clients, it could be a good idea to
respect what they are building, even by our silence, if needed. If they
are going stronger in no speaking about what they are working on, we are
going to get, soon, a strongest MetaCard 2.4 witch will help us to
become strongest developers too. If you don't want to get a little
Metacard 2.4, if you don't want to help Microsoft Visual Interdev to
become a Metacard clone, etc..., let them work, serenely, for them, for,
us, without asking too much, again. With the survey, they knows what we
need. Is that not enough, at this time ?
Best Regards, Pierre Sahores
CRDP de l'academie de Creteil
WEB, DB, ASP, VPN, B2B design
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