On 07.08.2004, at 19:19, Dan Shafer wrote:
At the end of the day, RR has to find niches where cross-platform
development is important or even critical. Those niches exist. But
they are not mainstream programmers on either platform (and certainly
not on *nix, whose developers seem to prefer Open Source tools). To
delude itself into thinking it will *ever* make significant inroads
into any traditional programming market would, I think, be the end of
RR. I think they should focus exclusively on the folks I call
Inventive Users who are not full-time professional coders, who can
make a tool switch without a huge technical or social cost, and who
are at least interested in if not motivated by the possibility of
cross-platform development.
GREAT Analysis Dan! (like that from Troy)
As it happens, I think that audience is at least 10 times as large as
the professional programming audience and vastly more receptive to new
development tools and technologies. But reaching that audience is
tricky.
I dont agree with the 10 times. Its hundred or thousand times bigger,
if RR would start to focus more a this niche and better to the needs of
"non professional prorgrammers". Im one of this, hence I know what im
talking about.
Dan, why do they not listen to you at RR?
regards
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