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Subj: Shareware pricing Section: Marketing OS/2 Apps
To: Warrick Wilson, 76514,1743 Monday, January 08, 1996 10:45:25 AM
From: Jon Duringer[IdeaFa, 71732,3361 #70593
>> I'm looking for a contact manager program.
And I'm looking for ideas for simple meterware products that I can write in a weekend and price at 79
cents. Warrick, I'd like to discuss, over in GO OS2SHARE, what you need in a contact manager
product.
If we can come up with a no-frills approach that will meet your needs, then we both might end up
solving a problem for each other.
#: 70776 S20/Marketing OS/2 Apps
09-Jan-96 16:43:42
Sb: #70558-Shareware pricing
Fm: Charles Stirling 100010,1433
To: Warrick Wilson 76514,1743
> contact manager program
> might be able to do something similar with a database program.
> Can anyone recommend one?
Maybe not at all what you are looking for, but may just do it. Its also free!
ExCal is IBM IWS, calander, address book, to-do, + and works very well
totally in background to pop up appointments, etc. In OS2User.
Charles
#: 70914 S20/Marketing OS/2 Apps
10-Jan-96 23:40:24
Sb: #70776-Shareware pricing
Fm: Warrick Wilson 76514,1743
To: Charles Stirling 100010,1433
Thanks for the pointer, Charles. I've grabbed some EWS stuff before, and a
lot of it is really great, and gets to my earlier comment: does one thing
really well. I'll have a look for the program you mentioned!
Thanks...Warrick
#: 70915 S20/Marketing OS/2 Apps
10-Jan-96 23:40:29
Sb: #70567-Shareware pricing
Fm: Warrick Wilson 76514,1743
To: Esther Schindler [EXEC] 72241,1417 (X)
> Seriously... I don't believe that "counting functions" is
> meaningful. OTOH I think I do understand what you're getting at --
> that a lot of OS/2 shareware isn't as mature or full-featured as
> some of its Windows cousins.
Actually, I was hoping to convey the idea that a lot of the OS/2 shareware
programs suffer from cursory implementations of too many functions, and don't
do many of them well.
> I could name some five-star OS/2 shareware products (in fact I
> have) but quite a bit of OS/2 shareware is, well, bare-bones.
I know about your recommendations - seeing your name on an article will make
me buy just about any magazine - and I feel that you always evaluate programs
from a realistic, user-centric point of view, be it shareware or commercial
applications.
An interesting case is ZOC. I know it wins awards, and I've run it, and it
works quite well. Has a whole whack of features I'll never use, but some that
I have and never thought I would. Haven't run it for about 4 months -
basically all my online stuff is now done via Compuserve (Golden CommPass) or
Internet (IAK/Free Agent). The nasty part about ZOC is the price...I wouldn't
buy a commercial communications program for that much. By the time it
converts to Canadian dollars, the price about doubles, and that becomes a
serious consideration for me. On the other hand, for $20-$25 US, I'd have
registered it via SWREG after a week of trying it out. My personal case, but
I thought I'd bore you all with my problems <G>.
(Incidentally, do you ever do user group appearances in Toronto or
southwestern Ontario?)
Warrick
#: 70957 S20/Marketing OS/2 Apps
11-Jan-96 10:17:56
Sb: #70915-Shareware pricing
Fm: Esther Schindler [EXEC] 72241,1417
To: Warrick Wilson 76514,1743
Pricing is a big hairy discussion, and one that I'm not particularly
well-suited to run. (If the people in this section want to spend a week or so
focussing on it, I'll try to dig up a real expert. Or perhaps the software
vendors here can ask Howie about it next week.)
Do I do user group appearances? Well, I spent a week in Ottawa last April, and
there's always the chance that I'll go back. It depends on the travel schedule
set by the training firm I work for occasionally. I've never done an
"appearance," just showed up and sat in the back of the room and acted like my
normal self.
--Esther