You miss read me or I misspoke. I was using Maccentral.com as an example of
the type of News outlet that we as Witango users need to feed Witango
information to.
Actually the Mac may have a small share on the deployment side but it has a
very healthy share(30%-40%, you mileage may vary depending on who you ask!!)
on the Web Publishing/Development side. I my self Develop on a Mac and
deploy on Win2k (Of course that will change with Witango 5.) And there are
many others who do the same on this list. Let's face it, the strength of
Witango is the IDE not the Application server.
Jose
on 4/29/2002 3:01 PM, Web Dude at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sorry to burst your bubble, but unfortunately, when it comes to db
> solutions and the web, Mac has a very small percentage of the market
> share. I know I am probably going to get railed on this, but Wi
> should start concentrating on the markets and/or platforms that are
> going to be the most productive.
>
>> The one thing that we can do is to make sure that when Witango 5 is released
>> all of the online news outlets like, on the Mac Side, Maccentral, Macnn, Mac
>> world, ... etc post are continually fed news about Witango. Not only product
>> information, but solutions generated by Witango.
>>
>>
>> Just my 2 cents.
>>
>> Jose
>>
>> on 4/29/2002 10:23 AM, Gene Wolf at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> At 03:36 PM 4/29/02 +0200, you wrote:
>>>> Hi Gene,
>>>>
>>>> I can't, of course, speak for With Enterprises. But this is what I
>>>> gathered
>>>> from the discussions regarding "marketing":
>>>>
>>>> - there won't be huge advertisment campaigns or budgets. no $70,000
>>>> double-page adds or the like.
>>>>
>>>> - apparently, much marketing is supposed to be "done" by the
>>>> community, i.e.
>>>> the community is expected to be more vocal about Witango accomplishments.
>>>> This may include "powered by Witango" buttons on web sites, mentioning
>>>> Witango in product whitepapers and concepts, and including "Witango" on
>>>> product sheets, marketing papers etc.. Don't forget to include "Witango"
>>>> whenever a newspaper or magazine writes a feature story about a project
>>>> you
>>>> concluded. You get the idea.
>>>>
>>>> - subversive marketing ("Trojan horse"): build a larger Witango
>>>> user base by
>>>> supporting schools, universities and non-profits by special
>>>> discounts on the
>>>> software.
>>>>
>>>> - more regular Witango developers and business conferences; e.g.
>>>> there's one
>>>> planned for June or July in Europe (Luxemburg) IIRC.
>>>>
>>>> Have I forgotten to mention something?
>>>
>>> Thanks Sascha, I've heard similar things from another individual so I
>>> suspect your recap is accurate. Unfortunately in my opinion.
>>>
>>> I'm in the process of looking for work in Florida. Many of my friends
>>> live there, and all of my family moved there so I visited last week, fell
>>> in love with the place and plan to move there this year if I can find work.
>>> I'm going to be looking for an IT Management position instead of a
>>> developer position, even though my heart is in programming?
>>>
>>> Why? Because I like Tango as a programming tool, it seems only to get
>>> better and so few people hear of it it's almost impossible to get it into
>>> any organization. It seems, with the exception of the folks at EveryWare
>>> anyone else exposed to Tango was so awed by its capabilities that they
>>> firmly believed the world would beat a path to their door in order
>>> to use it.
>>>
>>> It reminds me of my mainframe days. If anyone has ever coded in
>>> Fortran, Cobol and PL/1 you know for a fact how much more powerful PL/1 is
>>> than either of the others. So why do you hear so little of PL/1 and so much
>>> of Cobol?
>>>
>>> I just performed a search on Monster and Dice. Monster had a "Tango
>>> Shatterproof Drinkware division" job listed and Dice returned nothing.
>>> JobSniper, which allows you to search many job banks at once had similar
>>> results.
>>>
>>> It's only my opinion but without a cohesive marketing plan I don't
>>> believe sales of Tango will be enough to support the costs of development
>>> and enhancement. I don't believe the current developer community is large
>>> enough to market the product.
>>>
>>> I dislike being a wet blanket but we've all been through this before. I
>>> hope that I am wrong and I hope the folks at Witango reconsider a
>>> substantial marketing plan.
>>>
>>> In the meantime does anyone on this list know of any companies hiring
>>> in Florida? *laughs*
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Gene Wolf
>>>
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