Sound Ideas banned from filePro conference

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:50:28AM -0400, Howard Wolowitz wrote:
>    I can't never imagine that fptech could get any dumber, but they keep
>    proving me wrong.

Well sure, but you're hitting on a waitress from the Cheesecake
Factory, so why should we listen to you?

Nice hair, BTW.  :-_

>    I, for one, will not be attending any conference that does not
>    showcase every possible way to improve and extend the life of
>    filepro. What else is the point?
>
>    In the past I have offered fptech free access to fpweb, fpnotes,
>    and an automatic help file maker only to have them ignore them
>    because they didn't want to support them or have a (vastly)
>    inferior product to sell.
>
>    My company, Aljex, has investigated Reface as a possible way to
>    drag our filepro application into the 21st century and it's a fine
>    product.

And right there, you pinpoint the thing that, if *I* were the Gang of
Five, would be making me lose sleep at night:  I'm irrelevant.  My
entire sales are pretty much to the installed base: no one's doing
clean-sheet development using *my* product.

When you add that to fpTech's continuing refusal to behave as if
they're selling tools to developers, instead of retail software to
end-users...  well, things aren't looking good.

And if you piss off said Installed Base, they will go out of their way
to dump you, instead of going out of their way to keep you alive.

Anyone gotten a Wishlist item implemented this decade?

Anyone?

Cheers,
-- jra
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