Let the flames begin!!
I've been rather surprised by the reaction to the review excerpts posted here. While "webmailman" had been anonymous (and likely to remain so after the flaming), a simple search in the use-rev archives shows at least one prior post from that addrerss on a scripting issue. So it seems safe to say Mr. webmailman is a Rev scripter, not a troll.
As for PC Plus, I can assure you it's a real magazine. They ran an article on WebMerge there last year, and kindly included my demo on their CD. It's one of a good many magazines published by Future Publications, and my associations with them have all been top-notch.
I'm surprised PC Plus has been posting articles at their site at all. Many of Future Pub's mags don't have a content site (just subscription info), as the company is very much print-oriented. I'm glad to see this foray into web publishing, and I suspect that since they seem to be in transition getting confortable with the web model it may well be the case that they only post articles there once the shelf life of an issue has expired (usually 30 to 60 days from publication). MacTech magazine once had a similar model.
The article wasn't really all that bad when step back and look at the big picture. The biggest problem was that he was reviewing the wrong product: a comparison with VB should be against Revolution, RunRev's professional tool, not their more consumer-oriented DreamCard. But given that the word "professional" appears in descriptions for both products it's not surprising that he picked the wrong one.
So perhaps it was a good thing: if a professional writer can't figure out which product he should be working with, what does that say for less experienced prospects?
This is a great opportunity for RunRev to better hone each product's message to help customers distinguish them.
If they can also restore the "Getting Started" info that had been in the docs in all versions prior to v2.5 I suspect their next review will be as good as most of the others they get.
Note to Mr. webmailman: please try to not take the response in this venue too seriously. Heck, when MacWorld gave Rev a 4-out-of-5 review people here complained about that too. :) It's just what happens when you're in love with a market underdog.
Fortunately RunRev management seems to recognize the opportunity this latest review represents for more effective management of the product's message, so I suspect down the road we'll see both the product, and subsequent reviews of it, improved. After all, that's what reviewers are for.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation __________________________________________________ Rev tools and more: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
