Augie wrote:
Say for example… you… sell apples… That is your main focus… If you
just sell apples… You are limited (no need for explanation here)… but if
you enhance your product with apple peelers, slicers, apple cider, etc,
etc… You will sell a lot more apples and a few other things as well…
I don’t think this is true - adding value to your overall product does
NOT guarantee an increase in units purchased. You must ensure that
these value adds are in fact what people want (this ‘want’ is what
drives the increase, not the fact of including it).
You’re not going to sell more apples by including a peeler+slicer etc if
everyone already has one or no one wants one (they’re happy with their
knife) or no one cares (ie. you packaged something neat, which no one
actually uses).
On
some of these you might make a little more profit… on others perhaps
not… but the point is you sell a lot more apples… your main focus… and
your clients are happier… etc… etc.
This also is too simplistic a view - if you sell more apples, you need
to ramp up other business aspects to keep up with the demand. Soon, the
cost of selling of the product (ie apples) outstrips all profits and
it’s better to sell nothing at all.
The same thing applies here… keep developers/users happy with what they
need… and the more product you will sell… A decent GUI editor with
syntax highlighting and other common features should be part of the QNX 6
hosted IDE.
I don’t agree - it’s very common (maybe not for you) that developers do
not get final say in what gets purchased. Keeping them happy is nice,
but does not translate to revenue. The flip side also occurs, where the
developers love the neat stuff, but they don’t make the buying decision
and some inferior product gets selected for business reasons (cheap etc).
We have a new project here coming up with potential large number of units
and it will be hard to pick QNX 6…
We’re hosted on Solaris, Windows and Linux as well as Neutrino. Are you
saying that not one of these platforms has an editor you can use/like?
If so, I would say you’re in the minority, and the minority is not
usually profitable from a business perspective.
As Mario mentioned, is an editor really a make/break item for getting
your project up, stable and out the door on time?? – something is wrong
if it is IMHO.
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Cheers,
Adam
With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available.
On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge.
–Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>