> Maybe I'm just stubborn. (Naw, couldn't be!) :-) > > But, dammit Lynn, I believe I'm not being too immodest when I > say that I'm the inventor of the term "inventive user" and > that that gives me *some* standing in defining it.
Its okay if we have one inventive user, but invective users have to go :-) > Chipp and I talked about this a bit on the phone earlier. My > view is that if you are a trained programmer (even if > self-taught, you've studied > *programming*) and/or your *primary* job function is > programming, then you are a professional programmer. Anyone > who hasn't been trained as a programmer OR who programs only > as a relatively small part of their job or strictly as a > hobby is what I call an Inventive User Sure - but still too broad - 1. Professional programmer (subclassifications for trained, non-trained, or primary purpose of being a programmer) 2. Inventive user 3. Unwashed masses of the earth > Chipp, by that standard, is a self-described Inventive User. > So am I. So, I think, is Jerry Daniels. I suspect Richard > Gaskin falls into that category as do all of the educational > folks here and.... You get the idea. I think the "sweet spot" > for Rev *is* the Inventive User. in fact, I think very few > professional programmers will adopt Rev for a host of reasons > I've gone into before. > > So while the Inventive User market may be a tad elusive and > hard to define precisely, I don't think that should relegate > them to a "D) None of the Above" category on your list. (BTW, > you've never given us A through C!) Almost infinite varieties there - what is really important is to really understand the target customer, and then create the product that target customers want to buy. Some kaiju-class software companies go into extreme detail to understand who they are selling to - to the point that it's a character study, or a few nearly related character studies. Some go to the point that its almost -- creepy. But if you get to the point where you are creating sack puppets like on the Fandango commercials, well, that's close enough :-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Worldwide Business Operations Runtime Revolution, Ltd _______________________________________________ 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
