2-man basement software company seeks feedback

Re: 2-man basement software company seeks feedback

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:23:23 GMT, "Chris Thiessen"
<thiessen99@rog ers.com> wrote or quoted :
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>The survey is at: www.kataba.com/survey/Survey.asp[/color]

The only person who could answer that survey in any meaningful way
would be someone who had used your package. The short descriptions
are too vague to be able to form a meaningful opinion.


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Re: 2-man basement software company seeks feedback

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:24:11 GMT, Roedy Green <roedy@seewebsi te.com>
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>>The survey is at: www.kataba.com/survey/Survey.asp[/color]
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>The only person who could answer that survey in any meaningful way
>would be someone who had used your package. The short descriptions
>are too vague to be able to form a meaningful opinion.[/color]

Try rephrasing the questions not to require knowledge of or evaluation
of your product. People can answer that honestly. E.g.

Would you be willing to switch to a simpler i/o scheme than the
standard I/O classes?

Do you often have need of collections for primitives such as int?

Perhaps you might try to figure out why people would not even evaluate
your product.

e.g. concerns that they may be screwed later Oracle style with ever
higher licensing fees.

concerns that their code will balloon with classes duplicating Sun
ones.

Concerns over not having source code. What happens if you disappear?


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Re: 2-man basement software company seeks feedback

Thanks for your suggestions, Roedy. I've made some changes to the survey to
reflect the concerns you had.

1. I more clearly ask about people's need for a set of features.
2. I explain that questions may be left unanswered if necessary.
3. I added a section asking what concerns might prevent people from using a
product such as this.

We will be offering the product with very liberal licensing:
- comes with source code
- you can distribute modifications
- free and uncrippled for evaluation and non-commercial use.

Thanks,
Chris Thiessen
Founder
Kataba Software


Definitions of "Kataba"
in Arabic: to write
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