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- >>>>> "Bill" == WILLIAM J MILLER <wjm@wwa.com> writes:
- In article <Pine.BSD.3.92.960415201508.4808B-100000@miso.wwa.com> "WILLIAM J. MILLER" <wjm@wwa.com> writes:
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- Bill> I am not sure if the original message I had sent made it.
- Bill> First off: I work at an Egghead software locally. I have
- Bill> come accross at least a dozen people who need the
- Bill> functionality of E/DOS mostly. (Only 2 people have ever
- Bill> come in wanting anything to do with Linux, which is placed
- Bill> *Slackware 3* poorly (?) in CD-ROM reference). Anyway,
- Bill> getting back to the point, I have told them where to get the
- Bill> E/DOS demos. Hopefully it met there needs and they bought
- Bill> it.
-
- Thank you for recommending Executor.
-
- Bill> If ARDI were to pursue getting Executor into the retail
- Bill> market, they could make a killing. We have demo machines
-
- We will pursue the retail market as well as mail order through places
- like PC Connection. To do so we have to have nice packaging and the
- Executor 2 packaging (CD-ROM in jewel box with 32-page mini manual) is
- a good start. In general distributors also want to know what your ad
- budget is before they pick up your product. Exceptions can be made
- for exceptional software and we're hoping that once E2 has been
- launched that we can indeed land some important deals.
-
- Bill> that we run software on, and because of this, it results in
- Bill> many more sales. Customers like to see the product before
- Bill> they buy it. The problems with the potential plans (at
- Bill> least the way I understand them), of not allowing people to
- Bill> DL a demo is that they can't see the potential that E/DOS
- Bill> has. Even if its limited to ten minutes, a fully functional
- Bill> demo helps alot. (You can leave off the disk
- Bill> writes/formatting.)
-
- We will allow people to download demos of Executor 2, but it won't be
- fully functional. At Egghead the demos that they have are complete
- versions of the software, aren't they? If we can get Egghead to sell
- Executor then our agreement would probably require us to provide them
- with a certain number of complete copies that they can demo in their
- (approximately 200?) stores.
-
- Bill> The other problem is that E/DOS is in
- Bill> internet terms on a 28800 modem, a huge program. 2.8 megs
- Bill> at 28800 at OPTIMAL conditions takes a long time.
-
- Right. Once Executor 2 is a done deal and the Executor 2 demo is
- finalized then we'll make a lot of effort to get it onto other
- people's CD-ROMs and really make it easy for people to get.
-
- Bill> I guess the point is that E/DOS could sell a whole lot more
- Bill> if it were in a commercialized retail environment. I think
- Bill> one of the things that also kinda throws people off (I know
- Bill> it does me), is that you can't see it in a store, so you get
- Bill> a sense that possibly something is fishy.
-
- Sure. We've known this for a long time, that's the whole point of
- cleaning up Executor now and getting Executor 2 out the door. We have
- always meant Executor to be a commercial product sold through stores,
- but previous incarnations of Executor had just too many limitations to
- make stores want to sell them. It still may be a little tricky
- getting stores to sell Executor 2, but I think we have a good shot at
- it.
-
- Bill> I URGE you to talk to Eggheag corporate (or any retailler,
- Bill> preferably Eggheag), and get E/DOS in the stores. As it
- Bill> stands, we can't even special order it for customers, if
- Bill> they want it.
-
- Right.
-
- Bill> I did toy with Executor for a while (have such little time),
- Bill> and Photoshop seems to work. No more disk IO error. It
- Bill> loads graphics (JPEG) from a DOS partition. (I have a
- Bill> licensed Windows version). It displays them. I do have to
- Bill> say though, DO NOT run PhotoShop on a 486 66 with 8 megs of
- Bill> RAM allocated to the application zone.
-
- You don't mention how much memory your 486 has. If it only has 8 MB,
- then using an 8 MB Applzone will require a lot of paging (very slow).
-
- Bill> Did not look at Illustrator yet. I will DL the newest beta
- Bill> sometime (too big), and let you know.
-
- Thanks.
-
- Bill> Bill Miller wjm@wwa.com
- Bill> w-miller@flamingo.district125.k12.il.us
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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