RE: [mv] Preview of Akopia Interchange

["Christopher Thompson" <ct@arborinternet.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Christopher Thompson" <ct@arborinternet.com>     ******

It is good to from an Akopia person. I gave a longer proposal in another
message, but I wanted to answer your questions.

I have mentioned the dual use of Minivend, as a toolkit and as a full
featured solution, in my other email. I think one of my fears is that the
toolkit nature of Minivend will be lost in Interchange, as the full
featured solution grows. Solutions are great if you have the problem they
solve. If you have a different problem, then that solution gets added to
the problem itself. I hope this dual use is supported.

An additional concern I have is that the MV 4.0x series was just starting
to stabilize when the jump was made to MV 4.5x. Minivend never has had
stable and dev releases (which might be a good thing). It is not unclear
when MV4.5x will stabilize. I believe Mike has indicated that it should be
just a continuation of the MV4.0x series, but I am sure there are some new
things as well. I have MV3 catalogs that I have been waiting to upgrade
until I am comfortable with MV4. Interchange just throws delays that.

I am excited about Interchange and hope that the ways in which a grateful
community can contribute are expanded (I mentioned a _plug-in_ concept in
my other email). Mike has earned my respect many times over, so I know
that he will be up front with the decisions he makes and be open to input.
I assume, by association, that Akopia people are the same.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of David Adams
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 9:35 AM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Re: [mv] Preview of Akopia Interchange
>
>
> ******    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>
> >
> > --
> > ==================-
> > charlie blanchard
> > 626.447.3092
> > public key at:
> > http://blanchardsite.com
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