Mark Talluto wrote: > On Jul 22, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Of course. Choosing any product, whether it's an OS or a >> vacuum cleaner, should ideally be done on the rational >> merit of the product. > > Which of your products are you intending to put on the Linux OS?
I've been shipping WebMerge on Linux for about a year now, and while we have very few Linux customers it was still worth the low cost of clicking a checkbox in the Standalone Builder. :)
I make another product for a publisher in Boston for academic markets, and with that one we've been inviting our current users to let us know about their Linux interest. Being a multinational audience, it's pretty strong. We expect to sell at least a few hundred licenses right out of the starting gate when we release that in Q4.
Going forward, for my own new products and a good percentage of my clients' apps we're incorporating Linux into our planning from the start.
It's not any sort of get-rich-quick scheme, but the low cost of the port allows us to pick up even a few extra licensees with a positive return.
And Linux fans really appreciated it. A lot. We get nice email. It's a lot like the Mac used to be, and in some market segments still is: there's such a dearth of software for the platform that OS fans are happy to spread the good word about vendors supporting it.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv _______________________________________________ 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
