[pmmail-list] Today's Oxymoron: PMMail Support
Gregory L. Marx
pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Mon, 03 Dec 2001 04:34:05 -0500 (EST)
On Sun, 02 Dec 2001 22:15:30 -0500 (EST), Ralph Cohen wrote:
Not to defend them or anything ... really ...
But I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in their shoes ...
Can you imagine how frustrating and stressful it must be to sell enduser internet-related software in todays market ???
Nobody seems to care about "quality" these days ... or paying for software ...
MS's IE comes with a full complement of internet components that for many people are "good enough" ...
And it is FREE ... (at least from the perspective of a ignorant enduser)
It's enough to drive this old dinosaur to drink ...
Greg
>On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 19:53:54 -0500, Kenn Yuill wrote:
>
>>Gee, Ralph, how could you forget about IBM, Lotus, WordPerfect, Corel, .....
>>Perhaps, BSW learned their lessons from these stalwarts of the software
>>industry.
>
>Nope, I haven't forgotten, Kenn, but at least those companies "acted"
>like they gave a damn up until the point where they actually pulled the
>plug. Even IBM still issues updates to OS/2 years after telling
>everyone to migrate to something else. BSW generally ignores us and
>makes occasional commitments they never seem to keep. They act more
>like a company promoting vaporware than one with any real products.
>
>Ralph
>
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