Nine to Five Reports
Alan Gayne
alanira9 at mac.com
Sat May 31 11:55:01 EDT 2003
On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 11:52 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:
> However, I know that if the RunRev folks and E.R. talked and if there
> were some funding available for the project (either through pre-sales,
> or direct investment or whatever), it is at least possible that E.R.
> and Michael would pick up that product again and look into porting it.
>
> If we're wrong -- if, in fact, the user base is big enough and
> sufficiently interested in reporting mechanisms to create a modestly
> profitable product -- I'd love to be able to convince E.R. to re-do
> Reports for us. And I'd be happy to carry that ball forward if anyone
> can convince me I'm wrong.
Dan
That would sure make MY world a lot nicer place.
As I recall, they used to get $299 for the full Reports 3.0 package and
I would GLADLY pay such a price again for a fully implemented RunRev
version, perhaps with a $50 per machine downloadable Reports Player
which would allow networked users to work with (but not create or
alter) already prepared report documents.
I also had a brief conversation on this subject with E.R. and Bob
Greenberg at rpControl wherein I had also suggested that they try to
cut a deal with the RunRev people. I had made a similar suggestion to
Kevin Miller at last Summer's MacWorld Expo in New York.
What I eventually heard was that the RunRev people felt that all of the
features offered by Reports would ultimately be better implemented
totally within the Revolution environment - "ultimately" seeming to be
the operative term.
While I am reasonably sure this is quite possible, the RunRev folks do
not seem to place the same importance on this feature set as do I, and
as I strongly suspect do the many people who still use the HC/Reports
package every day to run their business.
Perhaps you could coax that "major european auto maker" to front that
small (to them at least) amount of money to E.R. and Michael to get the
job done. Imagine what a promotional coup it would for RunRev to be
able to say that it was now THEIR product being so used on ANY
platform. Maybe that would be motivation enough for them to talk
seriously with the Reports people.
Alan
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