At 8:58 -0800 09-03-1999, Randy Wigginton wrote:
>At 8:20 AM -0800 3/9/99, Jeroen Clarysse wrote:
>>None of my customers wants to go on with this. At first I though, no
>>problem : I buy the software myself and setup a server at home with 5
>>projects or so and split the price. No can do, since I wil need to buy
>>separate licences (aparently) for separate projects.
>
>I believe you are mistaken here. You can run as many projects as you want.
>
>BTW, other appservers do cost this much, and more. You should make sure to
>present the competition to your customers. Then, when they ask why they
>need an appserver at all, tell them they can spend (like Apple and others)
>millions of dollars to develop a custom framework.
true, but often their reply is far simpler : "duh, is it so expensive ? All
we want is a simple catalogue, not another apple-store !"
that's where WO falls short : the simple catalogue with a tiny bit of nice
stuff added to it.
I can agree on paying 25.000 for a full blown server, but not for a rather
simple website. And since simple websites have as many tpm (approx) as a
big website (often even more because they are faster due to not being
coupled with a huge DB), the tpm price kicks me off the candidate list for
simple to medium projects.
I still think that the majority of projects needs only 25% of WO
capabilities, but does constitute 75% of the market (rough estamatie for me
here in belgium, where full bown intranet applications are still not really
taking off because smaller trial-projects are too expensive)
*that* is the problem. Apple should find a pricing mechanism that does not
degrade your server when making smaller (trial-)projects.
give small developer a chance to explore the market ! At 25.000, I just
can't compete with the big companies here !
jeroen
