Re: [mv] Preview of Akopia Interchange

[David Adams <david@akopia.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from David Adams <david@akopia.com>     ******

I appreciate your feedback, and I'm very concerned about the minivend
community's perception of what we're doing.  I don't want this to be a
"marketing" company at the expense of the software.  That said, I would
really like you to expand on your comments.  I'm not sure what you mean.
What do you perceive has changed in Minivend besides the addition of some
features and a more friendly front end?  What are you afraid will change in
the future?  I really want to know.  Feel free to email or call me.

David Adams
www.akopia.com
703-456-2924 Office


> From: Charlie Blanchard <charlie@blanchardsite.com>
> Reply-To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:42:10 -0700
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Re: [mv] Preview of Akopia Interchange
> Resent-From: mike@bill.minivend.com
> Resent-To: tech@akopia.com
> Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:23:15 -0400
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from Charlie Blanchard
> <charlie@blanchardsite.com>     ******
> 
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 09:02:56AM -0400, cfm@maine.com wrote:
>> ******    message to minivend-users from cfm@maine.com     ******
>> 
>> What **I** want for Christmas is a separation of the minivend core and the
>> minivend minimate/user interface into distinct independant packages.
>> 
> Amen! However, it would appear (I could be wrong) that Mike and
> Akopia have gone the 'marketing' route of so many s/w development
> efforts. That of having to build everything into the product to
> appeal to investors and users and be 'marketable' with flashy
> sales hype, like e.g. Microsoft Office for instance. Another
> reason to offer all-in-one solutions is to lock in users to 'your
> way or the highway' but that doesn't seem logical in an open
> source product so I doubt that it's the case here. Forgive me if
> I come off a bit harsh, it is not my intent but as a products
> development/vision goes from a single person (Mike) to multiple
> persons (Mike+Akopia) focus must give way to other's demands,
> Mike simply isn't calling all the shots anymore. It's a trade-off
> he had to choose. Now he has to live with it. (-:
> 
> I look forward to watching how it goes, but my bet would be it
> will NOT develop into 'distinct independant packages' and that's
> truly sad. 
> 
> All that said, I've been wrong before. <sigh>
> 
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