Consider the following to be constructive criticism, despite the tone. The tone is merely a vehicle to illustrate the point plainly.
1) R++ is already taken. 2) Why are you embarrassed about the environment? If you are, then you are talking to the wrong people. From a different angle, if these people and their money are going to have an enormous positive or negative impact on your future, then you're an idiot for writing it in any tool that you think is going to keep you from sealing the deal. Conversely, you'd be an idiot for letting them have so much control over your future and your baby if you're using Rev for any reason other than it was dirt cheap and you're living at home with your Mum who can't afford to fix the roof. 3) You're in Europe. Rev is in Edinburough, Scotland. How is that possibly bad? 4) IMHO, nothing is worse than lying or trying to cover for your inadequacies. If you tried to pull a stunt like some of the ones that have been suggested here I would toss you out in a second, which is just about how long it would take to see right through you, and to be clear, I've dropped many tens of thousands on individual software projects and tossed a lot of vendors out the door for being ass clowns. Tell them the stinking truth - the engine is open source with commercial IDE/RAD toolkit built on top of it, and even that is open source. It uses a language and paradigm that started with HyperCard, which makes it really, really easy to write and even easier to tweak. It will run in Windows, the Mac or Linux without having to hack the code all to hell. The last major release was a couple of months ago, and they are on a six-month minor, twelve-month major cycle. 5) Insulting C++ or M$ or Java is a Very Bad Idea, as is insulting your competition. This isn't a political campaign, and you don't score points by setting fire to the opposition. You do make folks look for the gong, though. If they're asking what tool it's written in it's either because a) anything other than C++/Java/M$ whatever isn't good enough, in which case they're not interested anyway, or b) because they're interested in you and your project, and they're just curious about how you pulled it off, because maybe they can try it out, too. Dropping your drawers and mooning them is a good way to make a name for yourself, and not the kind you want, since you're going looking for their money. Mooning them will also surely make a name for you with people they know, which also alienates that money. There's also c) If you even mention C++, Java or M$, you're getting tuned out, and there are MANY people who have had enough of all three. 5) Know what the weaknesses are, and have a reasonable response planned. Is it scalable? Does it run in Linux - oh, wait, we already addressed that one. What about ad hoc reporting? Licensing. SaaS. Email. Web serving. Costs of development seats. There are major software development vendors out there that have a difficult time on several of those, where RR is fine. How do we do version control? They're a whole lot smarter when it comes to business than you are, and they have a ton of projects they can invest in. This isn't a charity. Almost none of them are interested in jerks they can't work with. Almost all of them are looking to get angel money into the Next Big Thing. What's the plan? What's the target price? Who's the competition? How do I integrate this tool with what we're doing? Bottom line: If you can't justify your decisions and investment and expenditure in this project to this point, they won't be able to justify theirs, so either hurry the hell up and rewrite it in something else, or be comfortable with what you did and why, and stop worrying about whether or not it's good enough. They didn't invent it, you did. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
