On Oct 22, 2004, at 8:12 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Or the one about "porting solution originally written in ..." ?
I have to say that i am not very happy with these news, especially with the two marked items above...
Doesn't a very similar statement appear on a number of websites of contributors here ?
This seems to be a trend in small software tool development companies... competing with their own clients.
REAL software went the other way, and charges a fee to be on their reference list, and then they provide business leads to those companies, rather than taking the work for themselves, which I'm told is extremely successful for both them, and the companies which buy in to their service. This provides them an alternate revenue stream, and takes advantage of their marketing expenditures, without biting the hand which feeds them. But it also requires some marketing critical mass, which they have going for them.
RunRev is in a bit different position. It's too bad, because it generally results in some bad blood with developers with overlapping services... although the claim is always that it won't.
I've seen this before, and I'm glad that I'm not one of the developers who will lose work over this sort of thing. I feel for those who may. The bigger disappointment, is that it always takes away from the core product development, and there are generally a lot of resources devoted to what become proprietary solutions for a specific "enterprise service."
Tribeworks went this route with iShell... which is now almost completely off the map. :-(
-- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net
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