I've been quiet for quite a few months and someone awhile back put this far better than I will. This is only my perception and I don't want to start another flamefest but my view is that they simply have stopped caring. It's not that they don't get it but it seems they have moved on to something else. Every once in awhile they will get a licensing fee and that makes for a nice little bonus. By coming out and saying they are no longer supporting/improving/maintaining Witango would kill what little revenue stream they are getting and it's easier just to lead us, and the developer community as a whole, on. Cynical? Sure. Come up with a better explanation.
My suggestion is use your contacts in the wider community to get Witango bought out by a larger company. One like Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Hostmonster, Corda, Google or some other company. Yes, yes, horrors. If Microsoft or Apple bought Witango they might kill it. Don't see how that would be much different than what we have now. If Oracle bought Witango it would be interesting. My thought here is that if With was approached and offered a reasonable price for Witango they'd accept it. The large companies mentioned above purchase smaller companies all the time. Imagine if Hostmonster (www.hostmonster.com) or Google developed an online, web based version of Witango to work with any database for the creation of forms, reports, database maintenance or any other capability we all know Witango to excel at. Show these contacts the power of Witango. Get the interested in at least investigating it. Show them what you've done and how long it takes to put something together. We are the community and we like the product. We can try to get it known to a wider audience for the purpose of being acquired. Yes, it may end up like the Pervasive purchase but it may not. The status quo is certainly not tenable. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Stein [mailto:d...@dss-db.com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 5:53 PM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: any word? And I contacted him several times back channel requesting he update us but he ignored me. Such a shame that the company does such a poor job of PR. I think they just don't get it. --- Dan Stein MSN CRNP FileMaker 7 Certified Developer FileMaker 9 Certified Developer Digital Software Solutions 303 W. Chestnut St Souderton PA 18964 Land: 215-799-0192 Cell: 610-256-2843 Fax 215-799-0192 ( Call 1st) FMP, WiTango,MSSQL, MySQL,PHP d...@dss-db.com www.dss-db.com "I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." Abraham Lincoln On Mar 2, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Stefan Gonick wrote: > No new announcements, hints or gestures. When we last heard from > Phil he said that they were still working on it but was not willing to give > any more details. > > Stefan > > At 03:33 PM 3/2/2010, you wrote: > >> was a 6.0 announcement made? A hint? A gesture? > > ===================================================== > Database WebWorks: Dynamic web sites through database integration > http://www.DatabaseWebWorks.com > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
