Re[2]: Company continuity (was: Curious - how did you find TB! ?)

[Gary Mort]

Hello Ming-Li,

Saturday, September 23, 2000, 9:43:07 AM, you wrote:

ML> On Thursday, September 21, 2000, 12:14:17 PM, Karin wrote:

>> I have one other, rather important worry: continuity.

>> TB is produced by a small company and written and maintained
>> by a team of only two programmers (and four people doing
>> other stuff). While I enjoy supporting small companies (yes,
>> I do pay for nifty and ingenious programs: cracks I only use
>> for expensive programs produced by fat companies that I only
>> use once per month) I _do_ wondering whether the company
>> producing TB will survive. _Will_ we have a V2.0? Will bugs
>> be resolved?

ML> I thought about it, too, when contemplating my own migration a few
ML> months ago. I agreed with others' observation that RIT is
ML> responsive, the support group is great and ever growing, and the
ML> user base is probably large enough for RIT to survive.

Just to add my own input.

These  days,  if  a  mail  program will do 90% of what I need it to do
TODAY and has no bugs that will stop me from using it, I will register
it.

For  35  bucks,  to get the features I need, I will live with buying a
new  program  a  year from now. If I was using a big expensive product
from  a  reliable  company, I would expect to have to upgrade within 2
years  anyway(after  the next version is released, support for the old
version  will  dry  up).  So,  WORST  case,  I am going to switch mail
clients  a  year  from  now  anyway.  Whether  upgrading  this one, or
purchasing a new one.

As  long  as  I  can export my email from this one, I don't care if it
disappears in a year.

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Re[2]: Company continuity (was: Curious - how did you find TB! ?)

[Gary Mort]

Hello Ming-Li,

Saturday, September 23, 2000, 9:43:07 AM, you wrote:

ML> On Thursday, September 21, 2000, 12:14:17 PM, Karin wrote:

>> I have one other, rather important worry: continuity.

>> TB is produced by a small company and written and maintained
>> by a team of only two programmers (and four people doing
>> other stuff). While I enjoy supporting small companies (yes,
>> I do pay for nifty and ingenious programs: cracks I only use
>> for expensive programs produced by fat companies that I only
>> use once per month) I _do_ wondering whether the company
>> producing TB will survive. _Will_ we have a V2.0? Will bugs
>> be resolved?

ML> I thought about it, too, when contemplating my own migration a few
ML> months ago. I agreed with others' observation that RIT is
ML> responsive, the support group is great and ever growing, and the
ML> user base is probably large enough for RIT to survive.

Just to add my own input.

These  days,  if  a  mail  program will do 90% of what I need it to do
TODAY and has no bugs that will stop me from using it, I will register
it.

For  35  bucks,  to get the features I need, I will live with buying a
new  program  a  year from now. If I was using a big expensive product
from  a  reliable  company, I would expect to have to upgrade within 2
years  anyway(after  the next version is released, support for the old
version  will  dry  up).  So,  WORST  case,  I am going to switch mail
clients  a  year  from  now  anyway.  Whether  upgrading  this one, or
purchasing a new one.

As  long  as  I  can export my email from this one, I don't care if it
disappears in a year.

-- 
Using The Bat! 1.46c
under Windows NT
4.0 Build 1381
Service Pack 6, RC 1.5

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Re[2]: Company continuity (was: Curious - how did you find TB! ?)

[Tim Green]

Hello Batpeople,

At 5:50:37 PM on Sunday, September 24, 2000, Ming-Li 
pounded the keys of an innocent computer thusly:

>> OT, do you know what exactly happened to Agent? I've been using it
>> for years and have finally been forced to give up because of the
>> lack of subfolders.



ML> Though Forte never officially announced Agent dead ...



ML> Then it stopped again. :( Various sources have said they have no
ML> plan for its further development.

Hmm...that's pretty much what I picked up. Being in the software
business myself it really saddens me when such a great product
gets such a bum ride -- particularly when one sees how many
shoddy programs make bucketloads of cash through hard-sell
marketing.

ML> Before I find a better alternative (XNews and Gravity come close,
ML> but not suiting me as well as Agent, for now), I'll keep using
ML> Agent, but I'm not longing for miracles anymore.

Mmmhmm. I'm still using it for news too, but its mail client
functions are no longer powerful enough to satisfy my needs.

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Re[2]: Company continuity (was: Curious - how did you find TB! ?)

[Tim Green]

Hello Batpeople,

At 6:16:59 PM on Saturday, September 23, 2000, Karin Spaink 
pounded the keys of an innocent computer thusly:

>> My bigger worry, though, is some software giant would gobble up RIT
>> and turn TB into junkware or kill it (or its development, as in
>> Forte Agent's case).

KS> Exactly.

OT, do you know what exactly happened to Agent? I've been using
it for years and have finally been forced to give up because of
the lack of subfolders.

KS> After checking out TB's export functions, I reasoned the
KS> same: _if_ TB would be discontinued, I could either continue
KS> using the latest / least buggy / most suitable version, or
KS> I can start looking for a new mail client, export mail and
KS> start
KS> anew.

That's what I'm thinking too. This is also one of the main
reasons why I'm not going to use Eudora, apart from its humumgous
size and all the bugs. I haven't looked at Becky yet but frankly,
TB seems to have all I need and more.

Greetings,
Tim
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