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- From: drw@jordan.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
- Subject: Re: Commercial support for perl?
- In-Reply-To: wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl's message of 22 Jul 92 08:28:33 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:07:19 GMT
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- In article <1840@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes:
- Suppose I would start a company that offers this kind of support to
- organisations. Say, I support them with perl and gcc etc. In
- short., I become their link to the net if I don't know it
- immediately.
-
- I think the crucial question is rather "Can you make such a company
- commercially successful?" Remember, you have to convince the
- customers that the software is worthwhile, as well as support them,
- and you have to do it at a price that a small customer can afford.
-
- Dale
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- Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu
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