From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jun 23 22: 2: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from arutam.inch.com (ns.inch.com [207.240.140.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11CC314F43 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:02:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from your-name (TC1-dial-38-215.oldslip.inch.com [207.240.215.38]) by arutam.inch.com (8.9.1a/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA22603 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 01:02:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906240502.BAA22603@arutam.inch.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Advocacy List" Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 01:03:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How to keep ISVs? Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been talking to the makers of Netmax, an admin tool for FreeBSD and Linux, and they have given me the impression they have not sold that many copies of their software. I bought the software and think that for small companies/ISPs/Setups it is certainly a good buy. They are soon to come out with a Linux version and I am a little concern they may focus on that and decrease or eventually drop FreeBSD support. I would like opinions on what we can advice this company so they have a better chance to remain as a viable FreeBSD ISV (independent software vendor). The only issue I have found with the software is it's cost. At $500 I can see how a lot people would shy away from it. In my case I figured it would take me too much time to configure email, firewall, DNS, Samba. On more general terms what, in your opinion, are products and services that the FreeBSD community would be willing to buy? Given the number of ports I think that most of the things covered by ports would probably be difficult for an ISV to sell unless the software is "much easier" to use than the available ports or has higher overall quality I for one would be willing to pay $ for a good email client. I got tired of trying email clients last time I tried to make FreeBSD my primary desktop. I also had hopes for Applixware (a suite like MS office), but the port to FreeBSD just kept been post-poned. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message