Dear Adam, I cannot imagine many of Plum's users saying this was a bad idea. However, I really think the plum community of users will be better served from you making enough profit from Plum to enable and encourage you and Dave to spend lots of time improving and supporting the product.
Three optional ideas: 1. Include all the modules you create and either lease them, or include them for a trial period. 2. Or lease the entire Plum product, with the different modules optionally included at a small charge. If the product is leased for a reasonable price, it will still be a great deal for users and will provide you with a steady stream of income. 3. Include the modules and additional templates with the purchase of a web support/training package for $495/yr. Raise the price of the product to $149 and eliminate adware option. 4. License Plum and the different modules on a per website basis. The developers who really profited from using the product would contribute more than those who just wanted to use if for a school site. Thanks for all your hard work Adam and Dave. Mark Fuqua -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adam Churvis Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:56 PM To: Plum Discussion List Subject: [plum] V1.1 So I'm sitting here thinking about V1.1, and I'm wondering about adding optional functionality to Plum right out of the box, so I wanted everyone's opinion on this idea: 1) When creating a new Plum project, one of the New Plum Project Wizard panels asks if you want to install PlumForums (just a pair of Yes/No radio buttons). 2) A second panel asks if you want to install PlumCatalog and PlumCart. 3) Additional panels ask if you want to install additional modules. First question: does this sound like a good idea? Second question: what should one or more of those "additional modules" be? I'm seriously thinking about including PlumForums, PlumCatalog/PlumCart, and these additional modules for free along with Plum, so that Plum could literally have just about everything you'd need (except custom business processes and graphics, of course) two minutes after launching the Plum IDE. What do you all think? Also, I'm going to take Sean Corfield's advice and rename Plum IDE "Plum Generator" in V1.1. Thanks in advance for your feedback. :) Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Member of Team Macromedia http://www.ProductivityEnhancement.com Download Plum and other cool development tools, and get advanced intensive Master-level training: * C# & ASP.NET for ColdFusion Developers * ColdFusion MX Master Class * Advanced Development with CFMX and SQL Server 2000 ********************************************************************** You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists, and you can change your subscriptions between normal and digest modes here: http://www.productivityenhancement.com/support/DiscussionListsForm.cfm ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists, and you can change your subscriptions between normal and digest modes here: http://www.productivityenhancement.com/support/DiscussionListsForm.cfm **********************************************************************
