[pmmail-list] More on PMINews & PMMail & OS/2

[John Angelico]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:02:29 -0400, jimmym@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
wrote:

>
>Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:27:28 +1000
>From: "Rod... Whitworth" <listener@witworx.com>
>Subject: Re: [pmmail-list] Any thought of developing....
>
>On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:02:36 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:
>
>>If the existing address book integration
>>can be kept without too much inconveninece some of us at least would
>>like to keep it. 
>
>The existing address books are an abomination which condemn the product
>to either:
>A> solo users
>or
>B> corporate users where the One and Only Address Book (tm) is
>propagated to everybody's machine thereby wiping out any personal
>entries.

Uh, Rod are there not facilities for including personal address books
within the framework of PMMail, either as groups or as other address books?
Yes, the concept of a common address book aka "OOAB" as you state, is also
touted by Lotus and MS as central repositories or corporate directories and
considered by them A Good Thing (tm others). But there are ways to do
things in between.


>
>Keeping a few OS/2 users (I am one) happy that they can still use a
>defunct unsupported newsreader is a recipe for failure.

Some quite large businesses have made a success out of existing entirely
for a few users in a defined segment. Some have defined market segments as
containing one customer only ie they respect customers as unique individual
clients. 

>If BSW wants to stay alive TPTB needs to keep the potentially larger
>market happy = not clinging to old dead weights to satisfy all four of
>you.
>
>Get used to it. Maybe you can pay for the code to backlevel your new
>address books to a PMInews version or else some (other) REXX guru can
>write a script for you.

How about easing up a bit, Rod?
>
>I have sold a bunch of PMMail licenses in my time. There are 4 in this
>house alone and they are all in use. The problem is there is NOT a PMM
>product for small business where sharing is VERY important.

What kind of sharing? How could the program be made into a shareable
resource? Isn't a mail client by definition a single person app? I agree
the address book/s could be improved, but let's talk about the need for
features/function rather than raking over the old coals? As I have already
posted, integration with other apps is a lower priority to me than
improving PMMail.


>Without new sales you (we?) are all out in the cold and those new sales
>can only  come from beady eyed new potential customers with feature
>lists which need lots of tick marks on 'em.

After this round, maybe we could talk about components being separated out.
Why not build a centrally-stored shareable address book/directory
application with capacity for private and public addresses? Then PMMail
might be modified to use it (or any other, for that matter). 

>From my perspective, the trouble with Directory/address book systems is
that they are buried in some other application (Notes, Exchange) which my
small business doesn't need. 

Hey, maybe we could be talking about building-blocks and shared reusable
component technology here... WOW! <gd&r>


Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
talldad@melbpc.org.au or talldad@kepl.com.au
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