Why isn't Rev more popular?

[Pierre Sahores]

Le 2 déc. 05 à 00:13, Kevin Miller a écrit :

> Hi Folks,
>
> Thanks to everyone for the well considered and helpful suggestions  
> that you
> have all made.  We appreciate the feedback.  Let me chime in here  
> with a few
> comments on all of this.
>
> If you ask people "why isn't" or "what's wrong with x" type  
> questions it
> invites, well, all negative responses. I'm sure we can do better,  
> especially
> when you give us feedback that is concrete and specific.
>
> Over the past year we've been extremely successful in both growing  
> our user
> base and attracting partners who will help us grow it further.   
> Some of
> those have yet to be announced, but over the course of the next  
> year you
> will see the results of that strategy. And I'm happy to say that a  
> part of
> what's coming will address a number of issues brought up in this  
> thread.

!!!
>
> I'd love to share our business strategy in more detail with you all  
> to place
> the suggestions you made in the considered context of our plans, but
> unfortunately the world is a very competitive place and its simply  
> not in
> the interests of Revolution, and therefore this community, for me  
> to do so.
> Our actions over the coming months will speak for themselves.  We  
> are where
> we wanted to be right now and we are extremely well placed to grow  
> in new
> ways over the coming months.

We have to be aware that it's the best never to much to say about  
strategic plans ;-)
>
> I appreciate that people would like us to post more often to this  
> list and
> that is a visible thing that we've got to improve on.  Its a very fair
> point.  To set this in context, we've been busy training new staff,
> developing product, improving marketing, signing partners and  
> getting ready
> for some big next steps.  When things settle down a bit some of  
> those new
> staff will have time to come and post here more often.  Right now,  
> as much
> as everyone wants more posts on the list, people even more want us to
> deliver new versions of the product with new manuals, better graphics,
> better fields, enhancements to the IDE and a number of other big  
> features -
> many of which have been mentioned here, as well as implement the  
> next big
> steps of our marketing plan that will make Rev more popular.  As we  
> execute
> that the new team members will have time to settle in, and it will  
> become
> much easier for us to stay on top of the list traffic more regularly.
>
> Lets remember a few of the successes that we've had over the last  
> year.
> We've worked so hard to bring on board 3rd parties and promote 3rd  
> party
> activities.  If I look back over the last dozen press releases  
> we've done -
> going back to July - 9 out of 12 of them are about 3rd party  
> activities.  We
> gained a 5 out of 5 review in MacWorld.  We've doubled sales and  
> greatly
> expanded our team.  We've improved the product to the extent that  
> even the
> most skeptical of our users has commented on how much more stable  
> it is. And
> we have new partners we'll be able to announce over the coming year.
>
> Of course we're not always going to agree on everything we do with  
> everyone.
> In business you can't please everyone all the time. But we must be  
> doing
> something right to attract so many new customers.

More in about PostgreSQL native support would be an usefull technical  
help ; an Apache's Rev_Module would be a great marketing opportunity  
to let us skip lots of PHP server-side coding...
>
> I ask that you be patient and, I'd appreciate it if this thread  
> could be put
> to rest for now and we can return to solving programming and  
> development
> issues.

Thanks to all, at RunRev and thanks to all of us too : list members,  
designers, coders...
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Kevin
>
> Kevin Miller ~ kevin at runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/
> Runtime Revolution - User-Centric Development Tools
>
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That's all for yet, Friends, Kind Regards, Pierre Sahores

"A partir du moment où on évolue dans une activité où il n'y a pas de  
place pour la fanfaronnade, on est obligé de tomber sur des  
personnages d'exception. Tous ces gens sont au limiteur." Pierre  
Dupasquier