[pmmail-list] Update from Peter Nielsen

[Gregory L. Marx]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:39:57 +0100, Dr. Martin R. Hadam wrote:

I'm not sure any of that matters ...
Bottom line is that we are in a BAD situation with regard to software ISVs ...

Which is that there aren't any !!!  (for all intents and purposes)
So IMO if we want BSW to guarantee a new PMMail for OS/2 ... say a version 3 ... then it is up to us to show them we mean business ...
I know that this goes 100% contrary to the typical rules of business but IMO we need to do something ... We're dying here ...

Personally I think we ought to approach Bob St. John of Serenity Systems and float this idea to him ...
See if he would be the go-between on approaching Thomas Bradford ... eCS stands to loose as well if the few remaining ISVs stop supporting 
OS/2 technology based operating systems ... Which is how eCS is positioned ...

Who knows ???

Maybe if Bob lays a check for 75 ~ 80 thousand dollars on Thomas' desk he'll get his attention ...
Afterall, other than PMMail what is there ???  Polarbear Mail & Emerald Mail (java based) and ICE/2 ...

I'm open for suggestions ...
Greg

>On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:53:58 -0500 (EST), Stan Sidlov wrote:
>
>>well the first test of this is now happening. Innotek 
>>announced an updated FLASH 5 that has all the 
>>current ability of the Windows version. They 
>>want 20 Euros for it, about $17.50 US. Everyone 
>>(at Warpstock and Warpstock Europe) told them 
>>that they would pay for the update, let's see. Not 
>>being sold by BMT at this time, only Mensys.
>
> Not sure if this is a good test. Where would you get the results from?
>Up to now, once it comes to telling straight-forward sales numbers,
>even the loudest proponents of "huge sales" instantaneously turn mute.
>Second, there's only a nag screen in the plugin - how many decide they
>could easily live with  that? Forgot to mention the betatesters who
>presumably got their copy, and their friends, etc. ... Last not least,
>what are the chances that the plugin is included with Software Choice
>in the not too distant future? Since IBM presents their own browser,
>it's bound to show up rather sooner than later. Once there, eCS
>customers will cry foul...
>
> Hence actual sales are to those who can't wait or deliberately chose
>to support Innotek's development.... (which whill make it a rather
>eclectic crowd, imho)
>
> Martin
>
> Martin R. Hadam
> Kinderklinik - Medizinische Hochschule
> D-30623 Hannover
> Germany
> Email: Hadam.Martin@MH-Hannover.de
>
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