-=> Robert Wolfe wrote to Sampsa Laine <=-

 -> Also, from a marketing point of view, having your website look like
 -> it was made by a high school kid in 1997 is not a great idea if
 -> you're selling a WEB SERVER.

 RW> So what you are saying is that all Sysops' websites look like they were
 RW> done by teenages from 1997?  I would have to say that this isn't a fair
 RW> assumption to make here.  Just saying...

No that's not what I was getting at, honest. I quite LIKE the retro look
of most BBSes and their associated websites.

But if you're in the business of SELLING a WEB SERVER*, then keeping your
own webserver looking at least like it was made in this century is probably
an idea.

Look - don't get me wrong, I have no doubt that WINSERVER is probably a good
product - just that I don't understand where they are trying to sell it to.

It is also, in my opinion, VASTLY overpriced at this point - if I was looking
for a low/medium end groupware product right now I'd probably go for Citadel
and run it along with Apache or IIS, all of it free (yes, IIS sort of costs
money but if you're on a MS server platform it's included)

Their product pages are woefully out of date (how many people that actually
want to be online DON'T have internet access this point, for example) and
de-emphasizing the BBS aspect of their product seems like a major own-goal:
I should think that most of their current and potential customers are 
sysops.


* Albeit with some probably rather good groupware parts. 

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