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Hello Woitek,
I appreciate your fervour in pounding on OMS, but I believe you are
pounding the wrong guy.
Economic success or failure of a development tool like BlackBox is, in
my opinion, not a question of marketing skills, but of marketing power,
which is money in the first place.
I myself try to sell BlackBox, as a developer, to my customers. But they
want me to use the tools used by the majority. They would not even
listen! Teachers from universities and Fachhochschule (Germany) tell me
they cannot resist the pressure from industry to teach C, C++, JAVA
instead of better alternatives. Ask Stan Warford, for example. Look at
the personnel advertisements, which skills are being asked for? C, C++,
and JAVA!
What does that mean? How many millions of bucks would be necessary to
keep up with that pressure?
Its all about money, not ideas. OMS is not M$, neither SUN who pays that
JAVA hog and gives it away for free.
Sorry.
Reinhard
PS: For a consolation: BlackBox is evolving slowly, but it is still
there. We are still using it. Maybe after years we will still be using
it. And it may grow, slowly, with our help.
skulski{([at]})nowhere.xy
>
>
>Ominc are a bunch of academicians devoted to preaching a past religion
>while the world of technology is moving fast. Ominc are missing the boat
>almost every day. Our job is to tell them up front how backwards they are
>business-wise. You are gentle while I am rude. In other words, you are a
>good cop while I am a bad cop. Working together we can perhaps make the
>Ominc become more pragmatic.
>
>W.
>
>
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