Return-Path: owner-new-httpd Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id MAA13169; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 12:06:34 -0700 Received: from newshare.newshare.com by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id MAA13162; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 12:06:30 -0700 Received: (from dave@localhost) by newshare.newshare.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA19990; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:14:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:14:23 -0400 From: "David M. Oliver" Subject: Re: netscape marketing To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com In-Reply-To: <9509081837.AA23581@ooo.lanl.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, Rob Hartill wrote: > beats-the-shit-out-of-netsite-and-is-free-too-ware :-) sure hope we dont have any Netscapers on this list... Actually, I beat the software guys at Netscape dont like the marketing tactics either... > Also, how the hell can anyone "trade" Apache for a 40% discount on Netsite.. > they're not allowed to "sell" Apache, only support for it. In the case of a "trade in" for betterware, the "trade" just amounts to a greater discount off the "normal price". According to the survey one person on this list mentioned, over 75% of all commercial servers are "betterware". That's a big open market for a salesman, but it also means that commercial server vendors had better start recognizing that perhaps "betterware" has something to offer, for example, state of the art protocol support. dave +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Oliver dave@newshare.com | | Managing Director-Technology Newshare Corporation | +------------------------------------------------------------------+