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Re: Demo Functionality
>>>>> "Bill" == WILLIAM J MILLER <wjm@wwa.com> writes:
In article <Pine.BSD.3.92.960415201508.4808B-100000@miso.wwa.com> "WILLIAM J. MILLER" <wjm@wwa.com> writes:
Bill> I am not sure if the original message I had sent made it.
Bill> First off: I work at an Egghead software locally. I have
Bill> come accross at least a dozen people who need the
Bill> functionality of E/DOS mostly. (Only 2 people have ever
Bill> come in wanting anything to do with Linux, which is placed
Bill> *Slackware 3* poorly (?) in CD-ROM reference). Anyway,
Bill> getting back to the point, I have told them where to get the
Bill> E/DOS demos. Hopefully it met there needs and they bought
Bill> it.
Thank you for recommending Executor.
Bill> If ARDI were to pursue getting Executor into the retail
Bill> market, they could make a killing. We have demo machines
We will pursue the retail market as well as mail order through places
like PC Connection. To do so we have to have nice packaging and the
Executor 2 packaging (CD-ROM in jewel box with 32-page mini manual) is
a good start. In general distributors also want to know what your ad
budget is before they pick up your product. Exceptions can be made
for exceptional software and we're hoping that once E2 has been
launched that we can indeed land some important deals.
Bill> that we run software on, and because of this, it results in
Bill> many more sales. Customers like to see the product before
Bill> they buy it. The problems with the potential plans (at
Bill> least the way I understand them), of not allowing people to
Bill> DL a demo is that they can't see the potential that E/DOS
Bill> has. Even if its limited to ten minutes, a fully functional
Bill> demo helps alot. (You can leave off the disk
Bill> writes/formatting.)
We will allow people to download demos of Executor 2, but it won't be
fully functional. At Egghead the demos that they have are complete
versions of the software, aren't they? If we can get Egghead to sell
Executor then our agreement would probably require us to provide them
with a certain number of complete copies that they can demo in their
(approximately 200?) stores.
Bill> The other problem is that E/DOS is in
Bill> internet terms on a 28800 modem, a huge program. 2.8 megs
Bill> at 28800 at OPTIMAL conditions takes a long time.
Right. Once Executor 2 is a done deal and the Executor 2 demo is
finalized then we'll make a lot of effort to get it onto other
people's CD-ROMs and really make it easy for people to get.
Bill> I guess the point is that E/DOS could sell a whole lot more
Bill> if it were in a commercialized retail environment. I think
Bill> one of the things that also kinda throws people off (I know
Bill> it does me), is that you can't see it in a store, so you get
Bill> a sense that possibly something is fishy.
Sure. We've known this for a long time, that's the whole point of
cleaning up Executor now and getting Executor 2 out the door. We have
always meant Executor to be a commercial product sold through stores,
but previous incarnations of Executor had just too many limitations to
make stores want to sell them. It still may be a little tricky
getting stores to sell Executor 2, but I think we have a good shot at
it.
Bill> I URGE you to talk to Eggheag corporate (or any retailler,
Bill> preferably Eggheag), and get E/DOS in the stores. As it
Bill> stands, we can't even special order it for customers, if
Bill> they want it.
Right.
Bill> I did toy with Executor for a while (have such little time),
Bill> and Photoshop seems to work. No more disk IO error. It
Bill> loads graphics (JPEG) from a DOS partition. (I have a
Bill> licensed Windows version). It displays them. I do have to
Bill> say though, DO NOT run PhotoShop on a 486 66 with 8 megs of
Bill> RAM allocated to the application zone.
You don't mention how much memory your 486 has. If it only has 8 MB,
then using an 8 MB Applzone will require a lot of paging (very slow).
Bill> Did not look at Illustrator yet. I will DL the newest beta
Bill> sometime (too big), and let you know.
Thanks.
Bill> Bill Miller wjm@wwa.com
Bill> w-miller@flamingo.district125.k12.il.us
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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