[pmmail-list] Update from Peter Nielsen

[Gregory L. Marx]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:33:47 -0500 (EST), Carl Gehr wrote:

It wouldn't work ...

OS/2 users historically have promised the moon-and-the-stars to ISVs to write different applications ...
But when push came to shove they ALWAYS bailed out for one reason or another ...

The ONLY real way this would mean anything is if we were willing to put up the actual money in advance ...
And quite frankly I don't see many people willing to do this ...

IMO ...

Greg

>I have to wonder:  What if BSW created a survey [via E-Mail or on its
>Web site] that asked OS/2 users:
>	1) "Do you still use PMMail for OS/2?"
>	2) "What would you pay for a new version of
>	PMMail/2?"
>	3) "How many copies would you license within
>	the first three months of General Availability?"
>	[Note:  I did *not* say Beta...]
>
>This would certainly provide a rough idea of the potential revenue from
>an updated PMMail/2.  Of course, it would also depend on the user
>community taking the time to respond, but a statistical evaluation of
>the responses would probably be valuable information.
>
>Carl
>
>On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:45:34 +0100 (MET), Frank Winkler - Sun Germany
>REOS - Munich wrote:
>
>>
>>Have you ever compared the number of demanding OS/2 users on this list to 
>>that of Win users? I've been using PMMail for more than five years now and 
>>ever since it has been a native and well-developped OS/2 application.
>
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