who's out there?

[Richard Gaskin]

Dan Shafer wrote:
> I had lunch today with a good friend who is a serious Java gear-head.
> 
> He says the IDE he uses -- Eclipse (which is open source) -- has  dozens 
> of bugs that require knowledgeable workarounds. "Any  programmer worth 
> his or her salt knows that tiptoeing around these  land mines goes with 
> the territory," he claims.
> 
> I think the real problem with Rev is its schizophrenia: it's a fairly  
> serious developer IDE that tries also to be usable by and accessible  to 
> people with little or no programming training and experience.  Those 
> folks don't have the high level of tolerance for bugs and  quirks that 
> professionals do. They expect things like the IDE to  actually work.

That was one of the reasons Dr. Raney only sold licenses for $995 --  it 
was a sort of marketing filter that worked well for him on two sides:

- It meant he sold fewer license, but he didn't have to sell as many to 
earn the same money

- His support costs were faaaaaaaaaaaaar below industry averages, since 
he was dealing with people who had usually been around the block with 
enough other tools to know how to deal with the small stuff.

I'm not suggesting Rev do the same, just agreeing that selling something 
as powerful as Rev cheaply is indeed a double-edged sword.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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