Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:43:00 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM> Cc: mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible Commercial app for FreeBSD. Message-ID: <7105.846042180@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:21:56 PDT." <199610230321.UAA00727@osprey.grizzly.com>
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> Get one of the industrial-strength databases (sybase or oracle) and it will > open whole new worlds to using FreeBSD. I've tried - they always tell me "Sorry, it sounds interesting, but you have no proven market demographics." Then I get all depressed about the fact that we've totally blown it on collecting user statistics for the last 3 years (several people have volunteered to handle registation, all disappearing again before producing any actual results) and I crawl back in my hole. I guess Jaye just touched a nerve. We get one DB company on board and then they tell me that nobody buys the FreeBSD version of the product, so it wasn't much of a return on investment. Couple the knowledge of this fact with the fact that I've got no user stats to speak of and you begin to see why I'm reluctant to approach new companies - I'm not sure I'm even doing them any favors, nor us if I approach them before any kind of FreeBSD market is ready to receive them and hence blow our shot at it entirely by tarnishing their overall opinion of FreeBSD's market potential. At this point in time, the FreeBSD camp seems to be widely populated by do-it-yourselfers who tend to craft their own database solutions, I guess, and it's just not worth trying to sign up the big boys in such an environment. Maybe later, when we're bigger, but selling 10 copies a year is not what Oracle is all about. Jordan
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