Rastus wrote:
Your time-is-money argument is a good one. However, there have also
been cases in the past where I lost a tremendous amount of time because
my boss was so anxious that I not redesign the wheel that I ended up
disassembling someone else's wheel, figuring out what logic was behind
their design, trying to work around flaws in their design and
eventually coming up with something almost as good as the wheel I could
have designed and built in a fraction of the time.

OK, a commercial package is probably not like that and I may end up
buying a package should taking the free way end up being the costly way
after all.

Thanks very much for your input,
Peter.

David Segall wrote:
Thanks very much. I will do that.

Seems like a good compromise.

Thanks,
Peter.

Paul Ding wrote:

Seems like an excellent idea. I envision that one of the stregths of
my business is that I will be working directly with the clients rather
than having a mydiad of levels of management having endless meeting
with other management and never having time for the customer. I guess
the only problem I anticipate is that competitors can also read the
blogs and get ideas, not only about suggested improvements but also
about the current product.

The rest of what you said is also very helpful and makes a lot of sense
with the caveate that the sowftare I will be producing with, at least
initially, be mainly targeted at research labs in hospitals and
universities. The users would hopefully be visiting the website and
participating in the blogs but the people with the purse strings would
probably not. My competitors would probably be mainly negotiating
prices (which would probably be quite steep) with the people with the
purse strings.

Thanks very much and thanks very much for your very helpful advice,
Peter.

Blinky the Shark wrote:
It's neither of those.

It's in a site that was in a .com domain OUAT, and for which a .info
domain was later registered. Read this brief history of Dan's websites:

http://dan.tobias.name/aboutme/thissite.html

Stewart.

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