Re: A "Why WebObjects" Site / Initial Thoughts Please (Modified by Bob McCormick)
Re: A "Why WebObjects" Site / Initial Thoughts Please (Modified by Bob McCormick)
- Subject: Re: A "Why WebObjects" Site / Initial Thoughts Please (Modified by Bob McCormick)
- From: Dov Rosenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 23:10:56 -0400
James - while you were on vacation a bunch of other people were feeling the
same way. We created a web site just for that purpose. Check out
http://www.whywebobjects.com. It is still under construction but we made
pretty good progress for less than a weeks worth of work.
We are going to be adding the ability for people to contribute white papers,
etc to the site.
Hopefully we can grab Apples attention as well.
Dov Rosenberg
Conviveon Corporation
On 7/10/04 9:19 PM, "James Cicenia" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Well it is nice to get back from my little vacation. I was actually
> looking forward
> to some positive news from the developers conference. I was especially
> looking
> forward to a WO 6.0 type announcement. Obviously, there was no WO 6.0
> and
> we all felt a bit slighted to say the least. I mean, can't Apple with 4
> Billion in the
> bank afford a small team of 5 individuals to work with Wonder, WOLips,
> etc., to
> make the product sing? It is hard for me to imagine the downside risk
> here. A
> million dollars a year is pocket change for Apple and the upside could
> be a real
> enterprise door opener. Ok, say 1 million is too much for Apple to
> spend a year
> on this fantastic product.... open source it then! This in-between
> strategy is the
> absolute worst strategy. It leads to stagnation, alienation, and no
> enterprise
> advantage to market. If Steve or someone at Apple could educate me as
> to this
> strategy's cost/benefit I would love to hear it.
>
> Anyway, the real problem with WebObjects is marketing. I think this is
> what we
> agree on. Well, we could look upon this as an opportunity. If we all
> took the
> time to give some of our talent and resources, maybe we could create a
> nice
> WebObjects "associatoin". The charter would be to promote WebObjects.
> Hey,
> maybe even Apple could seed us a grant or two to help jump start our
> campaigns.
>
> The beautiful thing here is that our promotional efforts would also
> generate clients.
>
> Strictly off the top of my head I envision an association which is
> responsible for
> "open sourcing" frameworks, generating courseware and presentations,
> mass
> mailings to our core constituents with a monthly newsletter,
> consolidated website and
> monitoring of all geek sites and magazines. Strong communication with
> Apple would
> then become easier too. We could even maybe run ads. I did say that
> Apple could
> give us a grant or two. I would have to figure that if we did this for
> one solid year we would make an impact.
>
> I could go on, but then that would have to lead to a full blown
> marketing plan. Well
> that is my two cents on the matter after my nice vacation.
>
> Good to be back,
> James Cicenia
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