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Clarification of statements:
> "Bring me customers, whom you can convince that software based on BlackBox
is a great thing, ...."
Unfortunately the customers rarely are the end-users themselves.
A customer who can afford to pay dedicated development mostly already has a
narrowed scope of the tools used to implement what he needs. Hence it is
like converting somebody to a different religion when you are trying to
convince a customer to rely on BB and not (e.g.) on Visual C++.
> "It seems obvious to me that convincing a customer about buying a solution
based on BlackBox presumes the requirement for a very specialized
application - maybe with performace critical GUIs. Otherwise a customer
might rather prefer a web based solution that does not require the presence
of any particular runtime system."
I guess I was hinting the same thing, here. If a customer himself feels that
his tools are not sufficient or good enough, then he might be more open and
give a change to something new.
A person who is doubting his own religion can be easily converted ;)
Hope my statements are clearer, now.
Marco Ciot
-----Original Message-----
From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
Couture
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 20:27
To: BlackBox Mailing List
Subject: [BlackBox] - Freestanding Blackbox applications?
The question is not whether BB _can_ be used to create freestanding
applications, but how it is actually being used, and why. Some quotes from
recent messages follow. What's going on here?
"We use BB at industry; basicaly as internal tool, our customers "love" our
tools but..."
"Bring me customers, whom you can convince that software based on BlackBox
is
a great thing, ...."
"It seems obvious to me that convincing a customer about buying a solution
based on BlackBox
presumes the requirement for a very specialized application - maybe with
performace critical GUIs. Otherwise a customer might rather prefer a web
based solution that does not require the presence of any particular runtime
system."
"...but from this days to today we sold only 2 software packages written
with BB. ...We don't sold "black boxes", in others words, 100% of project is
client's proprietary and open source to the client; 0% of our clients accept
a product over BB, even after use our tools written with BB,.... ...test
tool was written using BB and customer project validation was using our
tool, but the final application was written in C++...."
Sincerely,
Rex Couture
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