> I just wrote a fairly long rant about the USER space on > RunRev (and the lack of good example stacks for database use > with RunRev) and it got me to thinking. How do you think the > market for RunRev is defined? Is it 95% developers and 5% > hobbyists? Does it have to be that way because anything > powerful enough for developers must have a dash of "difficulty of use" > or developers won't use it? > Or is the amateur hobbyist market so small that it should > just be ignored? > If that is so it would explain lots of things about RunRev > and Valentina.
I think you'll find the a big difference between target customers, with an overlap in the general business and database development markets. One of the things that defines Revolution vs many other RAD tools is that its accessible without having to internalize a lot of "traditional" programming paradigms. This may make it seem like its often targeted at hobbyists, but it really is targeted at "professionals that do not necessarily want to be programmers". The wonderful thing of course is that those who DO invest more time can do some amazing things. On the other hand - the current customer base of Valentina is made up of database developers - the sort for whom performance is really essential. Valentina is accessible through the Revolution IDE but its utilized by a customer market that also includes developers that use VB, C++, Director, Delphi, PHP, Cocoa framework (Mac), Ruby/Ruby on Rails and more. Valentina has its own internal, advanced model and has a number of features that are unusual even in the db market. I think you'll find that combined with Valentina Reports and the new and improved Valentina Studio Pro we will be showing soon, much complexity will be ironed out in both setting up and presentation of data. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Mirye Software Publishing http://www.mirye.com Mirye Community NING http://miryesoftware.ning.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
