Sound Ideas banned from filePro conference

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Bud Henschen wrote:

> ... 
> The facts are that this is a FP Conference and I see it as open to vendors
> that promote filePro.  Micro-lite (Backup Edge) chose to have a training
> session following our conference and Tom promoted the filePro Conference in
> his newsletter and during the SCO forum this past August.  Bob
> Rasmussen,(Anzio)has promoted filePro for many years and showed it in his
> demos at SCO forum; however, if you check out Dave's www.soundideas.com
> web-site, you'll see no promo or mention of filePro.

Bud,

I appreciate the response, and I certainly understand your position. But I 
think you are missing a subtle point that is important now and going 
forward.

Some vendors will strengthen the filePro market by directly promoting it, 
as you describe. But other vendors will strengthen it by augmenting it, 
surrounding it with a constellation of tools, related services, add-ons, 
training, documentation, etc. To the degree that your company can 
encourage and support this constellation, it makes filePro a more viable 
programming environment. 

Put another way, and closer to home for me, it is very unlikely that 
somebody coming to me looking for a terminal emulator is going to learn 
about filePro from me and start using it. But somebody looking into 
filePro and learning that there is a robust terminal emulator available 
that works well with filePro is more likely to begin using filePro. The 
same is true of many other current and potential vendors.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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