“RE: Help with Macrobyte's Future”

On 3/20/02, Emmanuel said:

>I think the key is here. Since Macrobyte developed Conversant, a
>good guess is that if the "word is out", you might get a lot of
>contracts to install, support and customise Conversant. There is so
>much powerful stuff that are free now (HTML::Mason, AXkit, Zope)
>and a lot of business are just doing that, sell services on Open
>Source software.

Yes, there's an awful lot of competition in some of the spaces that Conversant will be slotted into.

>Another solution, but it might turn out as a nightmare, if to have
>a two tracks development, a free Conversant and paying Conversant
>Pro that add other values to the package.

That certainly sounds like a nightmare.

>But, IMO, the bottom line is just that, choose the best strategies
>to "get the word out".

Thanks for your comments, Emmanuel. I hope you'll be ready to take a look in a few weeks. :-)

Seth