Thank you Daniel, This is exactly what I'm saying. For companies with smaller budgets, Witango makes great economic sense - no arguments there. This is where middleware thrives. Witango just needs a nudge in the visibility factor.
For larger corporations who don't mind throwing gobs of money at a project, it's a different mind-set altogether. Enterprise is the keyword. It's not that Enterprise is better than middleware, they're just different solutions for different problems. As for me promoting in the middleware market? Thank you but my time has past, because many of my customers have passed on to Enterprise mentality - and I go where my customers go. ****** And besides, there are actually three sides to this coin. The other being when a small Contractor like myself has to rely on some small projects to pay the bills (in between larger commitments). Many small projects will range from $ 500.00 to $ 3,000.00. You can't ignore these, but you sure not going to get the project when you have to slap a $ 3,000.00 license on top of the whole thing. That doesn't fly. Witango can compete in the Middleware market, and can realistically compete with Enterprise with their Java Compiler - but Witango can't touch these small projects. At this lower level some Java licenses are free, and .NET is always free. This past year has been rocky for me. Either feast or famine; Enterprise or small jobs. I just couldn't continue anymore trying to fit the round Witango peg into the square hole. Sorry. Scott Cadillac --------- Business Extranet Freedom IExtranet ~ http://IExtranet.com Online Demo ~ http://www.northwind.org/#demo --------- Weblog ~ http://xmlx.ca For Hire ~ http://xmlx.ca/forhire --------- 403-254-5002 ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- P.O. Box 69006 RPO Bridlewood SW Calgary, Alberta Canada T2Y 4T9 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 1:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Rumors of my demise have been greatly... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Cadillac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 8:50 PM > Subject: Witango-Talk: Rumors of my demise have been greatly... > > > > (Long read) > > > --- <@snip> --- > > What do the Fortune 5000 companies (or likewise aspiring > companies) want? > > > > Enterprise - end of story. > --- </@snip> --- > > Scott, i agree. For the Witango Cummunity my question: > Fortune 5000 companies - .Net or Jave - that's ok. They have > money (also for > bad solutions - so what...). > > But what about the 5.000.000 Companies which don't have the money ? > Who need ASAP-Solutions ? > Small, but fine Solutions ? > > Think about it... > > Just show them how Witango works. The Dev. Studio is the key. > Develop a > prototype for these companies, offer trainings for the Studio > and sell the > Dev. Studio. Host the application and everybody is happy. > > The Customer (have a good solution), You (selling training > and the solution > and hosting) and With Enterprise selling at least one Dev. Studio. > > And if the company has more money, so they even will be able > buying their > own Witango Server... > > Just my 1 Cent [â-cent] > > Daniel Richardy > SoftDes GmbH > > [Developing with PHP, CF, Perl is a pain I the as - so I use Witango] > > ______________________________________________________________ > __________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
