Dan, this is an innocent question, not intended to provoke or contradict, but where do you think Rev is currently falling down with regard to either pro developers or inventive users?

As a hobbyist/inventive user (an excellent phrase, btw), I feel very well served by Rev, though perhaps others may not.


Mark

On 26 Nov 2005, at 20:01, Dan Shafer wrote:

I honestly do not believe that a single small company -- and RunRev is small -- can do a great job of serving both the professional programming market and the hobbyist/Inventive User market. The needs, expectations, demands, support requirements, feature sets, documentation needs, training level and a host of other factors are just too vastly different between them.

I've been racking my brain the last 48 hours and I cannot come up with a single development tool company that has succeeded at doing this since Borland's very early days. I'd be delighted if someone could point me to a real exception to that rule, but absent that, I maintain my position. RunRev needs to decide whether it's going to try to get professional coders to switch to Rev or adopt it as a RAD or alternative tool, or go after the untapped market potential of the Inventive User. Until it makes that decision and then permeates the company and its policies with it, it will have difficulty being as successful as it can.




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