Our first demo!

[szlamany]

We just had our first demonstration of our software product with a potential customer!

5 years of development...

...what a great feeling.

[kfcSmitty]

Congratz! Why don't you post up the source here so we can test it?

[szlamany]

500 stored procedures in the database and a VB client with a basmain of 20500 lines

[Static]

only 20K lines... meh


j/k
CONGRATS!!!

[sevenhalo]

Someone's going to celebrate hump day

Congrats.

[Sgt-Peppa]

Just wait till the first customer buys it,.........

[Static]

and then they find the first error... and then they want their money back

just kidding!! is it exxpensive??

[mendhak]

We just had our first demonstration of our software product with a potential customer!

5 years of development...

...what a great feeling.

Does it have a snake game?

[szlamany]

We are changing our business model (btw - is anyone else experiencing some odd delays while typing in the "thread textbox" - is it this new Chars Left counter?)...

back to what I was saying...

Instead of up-front cost plus annual support and maintenance fees we are going with a fixed cost for each month - forever

For that fixed cost they get whatever they ask for in changes and enhancements - we want to sell the service and not the product - and have the customer forever!

[szlamany]

Does it have a snake game?

Is that a reptile - amphibian thing with you

[sevenhalo]

...and have the customer forever!

Someone's taking a page out of Microsoft's hardball textbook.

Grats again though. If you get a sample app up and running (trial version or something of that nature), I'd love to see it!

[szlamany]

We are going to use something called ScreenCorder to record mpeg-type movies of the screens and put them on our website - I hate working on websites

[mendhak]

We are changing our business model (btw - is anyone else experiencing some odd delays while typing in the "thread textbox" - is it this new Chars Left counter?)...

back to what I was saying...

Instead of up-front cost plus annual support and maintenance fees we are going with a fixed cost for each month - forever

For that fixed cost they get whatever they ask for in changes and enhancements - we want to sell the service and not the product - and have the customer forever!

But isn't that pushing it upon them? What if they go an entire year without any need for maintenance?

[space_monkey]

Grats Szl!

[mendhak]

We are going to use something called ScreenCorder to record mpeg-type movies of the screens and put them on our website - I hate working on websites

If you knew the beauty of ASP.NET, you wouldn't say that.

[szlamany]

But isn't that pushing it upon them? What if they go an entire year without any need for maintenance?

We want needy customers!

Actually with all the state and federal requirements our customers always need enhancements.

And we are going to share the enhancements from customer A with customer B - a big old happy communal software group!

The school districts and municipalities we deal with always purchase maintenance - they need that "protection".

[mendhak]

I never thought I'd say this, but... commie programmers!

[Arrow_Raider]

I record things with this program called Wink (free): http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ It basically takes snapshots of the screen/window and then stores them in a flash file and then creates a sprite for the mouse. For certain things, this may work better than just dumping MPEGs of your screen.

You can easily tell that its not a "normal" video when you make something with wink, but that may not be a problem. You can also insert little text boxes and what not on frames to describe or explain something. You should at least check it out... even if it doesn't do what you need for this application, you may find a use for it in the future.

[szlamany]

Thanks - I'll check it out. I've only done very little with Matchware ScreenCorder (one of my customers bought a licence for me - so it was free also)...

[RobDog888]

Congrats Steve!

Now you need to sell them SBS 2003 so they can do their work from home

[RadBrad]

Thanks - I'll check it out. I've only done very little with Matchware ScreenCorder (one of my customers bought a licence for me - so it was free also)...

Hmm... Nice customer. So let me guess, this customer was recieving either a discount or a bribe?

[szlamany]

Congrats Steve!

Now you need to sell them SBS 2003 so they can do their work from home

Thanks Robert - and everyone else!

This customer will have 180.5 users (we charge by the number of certified staff members) - so I think SBS 2003 might not fit the bill for them

[umilmi81]

Does it have a snake game?

What self respecting business application DOESN'T have a snake game

[space_monkey]

180.5 users? Did they cut one in half, cause i heard that kinda hurts?

[szlamany]

I might depend on what half they keep

[szlamany]

What self respecting business application DOESN'T have a snake game

Ok - what is a snake game actually?

I'm going to spend the whole holiday weekend working on one

[RobDog888]

The separate servers running Server 2003, Terminal Server, ISA 2004, SQL Server 2005 should do the trick.

[damasterjo]

(btw - is anyone else experiencing some odd delays while typing in the "thread textbox" - is it this new Chars Left counter?)...

Yeah I hate it... It is slow for me too

[RobDog888]

No delays for me.

[mendhak]

I type so fast that my messages are posted before I complete the sentence. Hence, no delays.

[v!sualAd]

You are back.

[v!sualAd]

I type so fast that my messages are posted before I complete the sentence. Hence, no delays.

I hope you learnt your lesson.

[RobDog888]

I'd say so as it looks like he lost an eye and is just a regular 2 eyed frog now. It must have been some punishment for it to take out an eye.

[Valleysboy1978]

What does the product do exactly?

[RobDog888]

You shouldn't have fallen asleep at the Demo meeting this morning.

[mendhak]

Hey, you have to admit, it was a very clever post. A very crude one, but brilliant. My third eyeball exploded in sheer glory.

[Shuja Ali]

For that fixed cost they get whatever they ask for in changes and enhancements - we want to sell the service and not the product - and have the customer forever!

Too good.

May you get millions of customers.

[dee-u]

Congrats SQL Server grandmaster.

I'm still puzzled why didn't you get the MVP for SQL Server instead of VB?

[szlamany]

Congrats SQL Server grandmaster.

I'm still puzzled why didn't you get the MVP for SQL Server instead of VB?

Thanks!

Seemed odd to me also - since I've really only written about 3 VB programs in my life!

@vb1978 - the product is a Student Management System - for a school district to process everything from attendance through transcripts.

[szlamany]

No delays for me.

The delay is extreme - as you type characters you can watch the CHAR LEFT increase and the pause to see the next character typed is very obvious