Re: BlackBox marketing

From: Bernhard Treutwein <"Bernhard>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 00:13:15 +0100

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Dear Doug (and Helmut & Wijk),

let me jump into th iscussion ... reordering some of
the stuff said until now ...

first of all: At work I convinced my employer to buy
a full developer version (including DTC) for me and
at home I have a complimentary shareware version
(for some infos about GUIs on Linux I collected for
OMiSys on a CD), but I have to confess that even
the 450 CHF for the shareware version would be
an awful amount to spend for me privately.

>
> Rather than being critical, I'm racking my brain on
> the best ways to promote BlackBox/Component Pascal.
>
I did that also and I'm still did not find a viable
solution ...
[...]
>
> I had the recent experience of asking a coworker
> (who was a strong unix/c advocate) to produce a
> Motif button to say "Hello world". One hour
> later he was still struggling to get the code
> correct (I was standing next to him). I then
> showed him in 3 minutes how to do it under BlackBox
> and he said "How does it know how to do that?"
>
I had similar experiences, when I demonstrated some
people the BB approach to "programming" GUIs
(better would be editing, but you all know that ...

The important point is: How to spread this information ?
I don't have any idea ... see above ... we are something
like an in-group, we all know why, but the mainstream is
going somewhere else.

I know that OMiSys primarily makes the money by
consulting and software-architectural design. We all
should be very grateful to them that they provide
their tools for others (us), but can we ask them to invest
in ads and marketing, if they do not make money with
that product ? As far as I know, it is very very difficult
to make money with compilers (at least now).

regards & good night

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    Bernhard Treutwein
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