[softwarelist] Re: O-Pro's future

In a dim and distant universe <gemini.k342pt002go7701z8.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Ray Dawson <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> enlightened us thusly:
[Snippety snip]

> The lack os sales of the PC version is a combined result of competition
> and exposure. The potential number of users is very high. The potential
> number of RISC OS users is about 60.

There are vastly more *potential* RISC OS users than that. The problem is
in reaching them. There are 1000s of RISC OS users who don't even know
there are other RISC OS users around.

I would say that at least once a week I get a phone call from someone, with
a RISC OS support enquiry, who a) seem shocked when I tell them I'm using a
RISC OS machine as my main machine and b) are even more shocked when I tell
them there's an active RISC OS community, as they think they're the only
one left.

Indeed, Orpheus has over 400 RISC OS customers who probably never even use
Newsgroups, so the people who /do/ read and participate in newsgroups I
would say is a very small minority of potential users.

There are still 3000 people on the Ant mailing list, and that's not even
been developed for a number of years.

> Which has a very limited coverage. What is perhaps needed is exposure on
> a magazine CD of something like PC Pro,

No of relevance to RISC OS I'm afraid, so I'm not going to offer to sponsor
that. :-)

> Don't forget this the Ovation Pro list and not a RISC OS list and, as
> such is open to positive comments about the Windows version.

Fair enough. I don't have any positive comments to offer about that, and I
would never be a user of the Windows version anyway (or Mac/Linux for that
matter), so I'll shut up and 'get me coat' now. :-)

Paul Vigay
Editor, www.RISCOS.org

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