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Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah [message #27458 is a reply to message #27163]

Tue, 23 October 2001 07:07

Struan Gray
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Registered: December 1995

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Joseph B. Gurman, gurman@crosslink.net writes:

> Sorry, David, but this is a bineheaded business
> decision, since the attraction of IDL in the sicentific
> community is at least as much its cross-platform portability
> as its versatility for the individual user.

It's boneheaded if you think you're in the business of
selling a computer language and application development
environment. It's much less boneheaded if you want to make money
selling turnkey solutions and ready-made applications to users
who will never write their own routines. My impression is that
RSI is now going after this second sort of customer, having
originally been aimed at the first. The press release announcing
Scally's appointment as CEO is littered with clues to this
effect: they want David and Ron K's business.

I agree with David that this looks very much like a 'big
business' decision, and although I believe the RSI folks when
they say this was not a Kodak imposition, it is exactly how Kodak
has behaved when pulling out of various niche photographic
markets in the last few years. The question is not whether
supporting the niche users is profitable, but whether you would
make even more money supporting someone else. It's a bit like
the armchair investor who pours his whole life savings into last
year's top stock.

Struan

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		Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: David Fanning on Tue, 09 October 2001 11:46
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] on Wed, 10 October 2001 11:51
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Noam R. Izenberg on Wed, 10 October 2001 04:29
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: David Fanning on Tue, 09 October 2001 15:09
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 09 October 2001 14:25
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: David Fanning on Tue, 09 October 2001 14:01
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Joseph B. Gurman on Wed, 10 October 2001 15:50
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Struan Gray on Tue, 23 October 2001 07:07
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:56
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:23
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 October 2001 16:44

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