[TRLog] Renaissance?

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Clive,

Have you done any real market research on this or are just assuming that ham 
contesting software is a emerging market.

Remember, we did a survey of the current userbase, which as you may or may 
not know, is where 70% of business comes from (repeat business). The userbase 
just wanted the DOS version to run correctly under a Windows dos box, or 
wanted the Windows version to look and act like the dos version, and wanted 
to pay less that $30 per copy for it.

If you think there is a market, put your money where your mouth is. It'll 
cost between $100,000 - $200,000 to do it right (i.e. all features, docs, 
etc). It'll take 9-12 months to do and you need a good Windows coder, device 
driver coder, documentation writer and QA person just to get to the beta 
cycle.

If you want to fund it and share a portion of the royalties for your funding, 
let me know.

Rick - W4PC


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I'd just like to say how pleasant it is to see Tree updating the 
prog. a little more regularly once again.

I therefore nurture the hope that he might resurrect the project 
to port the system to Windows this year, and in the process 
choose a more amenable partner than CSS inc., who can grasp that 
folk *will* pay for new toys, despite their initial 
protestations; here's *one* who will.

I'm not holding my breath, but it  is a time to be sanguine at 
the start of a new year. Thanks for all that has passed, without 
which I wouldn't be using compute logging, nor entering as many 
contexts, and here's to that which may come to pass.


73


Clive



GW3NJW
gw3njw@gw7x.org
Contest Cambria-http://www.gw7x.org



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