Glenn Koster wrote:
>
>
> Consumers and corporate partners come into play when they stop buying the
> products that a company is pitching.  For business consumers that buying
> cycle can be interrupted by a myriad of factors including competing
> products, price pressure, media hype, changing business needs.  For the home
> consumer the buying cycle is generally interrupted by either price pressure
> or media hype.  There are other factors that come into play for both types
> of consumers, but I believe these to be the major factors.
>

Let's not forget that great applications sold as a cost effective service,
and marketed and supported reasonably well, still can take off and "create"
a lot of moeny for the companies selling the application and the platform
it runs on.

Let's fight the notion that MPE/iX means something bad.  But let's also
fight back by making world class applications and then sell 'em.

While I realize the stock market recently seems to like to ignore profit,
surely it won't/can't forever.  Presumablly, the presumption was that those
internet start ups or dot.coms would make a lot of money, which they
haven't.

Richard
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