Compared to multi-billion dollar enterprises, small software businesses are in a very different position when it comes to software development. They have other needs and expectations of their development tools. For a big software corporation like Symantec, it doesn’t matter much if a software product is a small download or not. They sell their products either through retail stores or send their corporate customers media kits. As long as the software fits on a CD or DVD, the file size doesn’t matter.

For small software businesses who often sell their products online, it is important that their applications and trial version can be easily downloaded over the internet. Points such as download size should play a big role in the decision for or against a software development tool in the eyes of a small software business owner.
I disagree with most of this. Most non corporate Anti Virus is downloaded from the internet these days. In fact i download most of my programmes, and most people i know do also. Only really large software comes on disk these days.

The one things i wonder is what the Internet infrastructure is like in Italy Esposito ? You often mention Dial up connections ? In England the large majority of people can get broadband and generally businesses will have broadband. Is this not true in Italy ?