“Re: Help with Macrobyte's Future”

Truly, if any technology is to go beyond workgroup stuff and into the great wide yonder, you have to ditch UserTalk in some way or another (i.e. use SQL stored procedures, DLLs, Perl/Python RPC, etc..), otherwise you'll quickly alienate the heavy-duty developers who want to take your platform into the realm of StoryServer and others (not that StoryServer is good, it totally sucks but it's made for big sites).

Not knowing Conversant but knowing that the folks at Macrobyte are talented and good Software Architects (capital "A"), I think there's a market for a solid, extensible, based-on-standards CMS system in the <$100,000 range that will scale infintely. That would eat up Vignette's market, especially now that companies are on a budget and have seen the FUD of those large companies.

And don't go telling me that for example $80,000 is a lot, it's barely the price of a fully-burdened regular programmer for a year.

H