I'm in agreement with Ken on this one. As mainly a PC user, it is obvious to me that RR is marketing mainly at Mac users. This is because ex-HyperCard users are the 'low hanging fruit' for RR - and a company like RR with limited resources wants to make the easy sales first.
While Tom's GOOGLING efforts may be good for a chuckle, they are in no way indicitive of how RR targets their tool. Ken's points are well taken. If RR wants to be taken seriously as a professional cross-platform development tool, they will have to change their messaging. -Chipp > Sorry, Dan, I respectfully disagree. Rev has had ads or been written > about in several Mac magazines (MacWorld UK, MacAddict, MacTech), but I > have yet to see an ad or write-up in a PC magazine (and I subscribe to a > bunch). I don't know about UNIX mags, but perhaps someone else can > comment on this. Do a web search for "Runtime Revolution" and see just > how many "hits" you get for sites that advertise or promote PC > development tools or news on the PC front. > > And look at the web site - the first page (after you get past the flags) > has the words "Mac", "MacWorld" and "MacUser" all over it. I *know* this > not the norm and is because we just came out of MacWorld, and Rev won an > Eddy in MacWorld magazine, but for people going to the site in the last > couple of months, it helps to form an opinion that Rev is primarily a > Mac tool. > > And speaking of MacWorld, RunRev has been at conventions selling Rev, > but what kinds of conventions? Almost exclusively Mac conventions > (AFAIK). And once again, regardless for the reason for it, it adds to > the "buzz" about Rev as a Mac tool. > > Additionally, Rev is very often compared to RealBasic - primarily known > as a Mac development environment - and that doesn't help its image one > bit. > > Finally, there are a handful of features that need to be in the product > (IMHO) to be "taken seriously" in the PC community (ActiveX support, > Win32 DLL access, etc.), which may be part of the reason it's not been > covered in the PC trades. > > Look, I'm not trying to say that what RunRev's doing is not helping sell > boxes, but what I *am* saying is that the groundswell of commentary on > Rev is in the Mac community. And to shake that off and truly be a > cross-platform tool, RunRev will need to balance the Mac marketing with > marketing in the Windows and UNIX communities, when it is the > appropriate time to do so. > > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution