On 5/12/99 10:33 am, Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3 Dec 99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> NB I checked out cross worlds site, who have a contract with MC to develop a
>> GUI as part of their licensing agreement. So, perhaps my question would be
>> better posed as "what coordination is possible" or even simply "may i help?"
>
> Small correction: though Cross Worlds does have an agreement to resell
> MetaCard, they don't have any agreement with MetaCard Corporation to
> develop a new UI. That's just something they've taken on themselves.
Further small correction: while we don't have a contract that *requires* us
to produce a new UI (we did take it on ourselves) the resellers contract we
have was specifically negotiated to cover us selling a version of MetaCard
with a modified UI under a new name. Our product won't even be called
MetaCard, it will be so different that we're going to call it something
completely different and push it as a "new" product.
> It is a project we've encouraged, though, just as we're supporting
> this similar effort from the OpenCard group. In a sense, the two UIs
> will be competitors and both will compete with the standard UI, but
> they're very different in scale (the CWC editor is much more elaborate
> than what the OC group should shoot for, at least for the first
> release). And while I'm sure Cross Worlds would be happy to have you
> help on their UI, their UI is a product that they intend to sell and
> as such probably wouldn't be released for the OC group to use.
Right. Our UI is effectively the key to our "MetaCard" marketing stratey,
and has undergone a four figure number of man hours development so far.
Included will be such features as timeline animation, a spellchecking script
editor, and all-new documentation produced by a top tech-writer experienced
in the field (Jeanne DeVoto, co-author of HyperCard 2.2: The Book). We're
currently in private alpha testing. Given the huge commercial investment
we've put into this, we're not planning to release it as open source at this
time. You will find that we're a very responsive vendor though, and
throughout testing and after release we'll be listening to suggestions from
everyone to make and keep our product as easy to use as possible.
We would have put out an invite on this list for people here to join our
alpha testing process, given your interest in the subject. But we have a
strict NDA policy, to prevent anyone (even accidentally) borrowing our ideas
before we release the product. Thus, regrettably, we thought there would be
a conflict of interest inviting people on this list to alpha test.
> Regards,
> Scott
>
> PS: Cross Worlds is going to change their name soon when they announce
> this new product: watch for it!
The name change will be the first corner of our marketing campaign for the
new product. We'll post a press-release to this list to let you know when
that happens.
Regards,
Kevin
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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.
