[Am-info] Who is this fellow?

[Simon Cooke]

>From: "John J. Urbaniak" <jjurban@attglobal.net>
>Yes, I've ported it to eComStation.  It runs beautifully on eCS.  I've 
>already
>sold three of them since eCS was released in mid-August.  One to a Property
>Management Company in the mid-Atlantic area; one to an Industrial Packaging
>Manufacturer in the midwest, and the latest to a Municipal Water Treatment
>Facility in the southwest.  I'm assembling their system as we speak.

Congratulations! Finally!

>And if you think three's not significant, please remember that this is not 
>a
>horizontal app.  It's also quite expensive, selling for $4,000 to $6,500
>depending on user requirements.

Ummm... that's not particularly expensive. I'm used to seeing $40,000 price 
tags on custom business software such as yours.


>I've also got several hot leads in the pipeline.  People are finally 
>listening
>and looking for alternatives to Windows(*)  for their mission-critical 
>apps.

*shrugs* personally, if I was looking for a custom solution, I probably 
wouldn't care what platform it was running on as long as it talked to my 
other stuff. But there you go.

>My sales under eCS are up dramatically.  So I guess your Microsoft cronies 
>will
>have to have me killed.

Don't you mean YOUR Microsoft cronies?

Seriously though, congrats. I still think you should consider porting it to 
other OSes though.

Simon

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