Some Good News For The Week

I’ve been in our San Mateo office the past week working with the sales and marketing folk which has been great, but also challenging and often frustrating. The challenge is in getting a grip on my new job as product manager, the frustrating from the initial objections we often get from clients as they try and guess what the reaction will be from their users instead of actually finding out. It’s fair enough, that’s all they have to go on but it’s frustrating to have to try and share the experiences that we’ve seen with users giving our software rave reviews. It’s also frustrating to hear negative things about software you’ve written – I always get so attached.

So I was very pleased to see a nice implication made by Steve Loughran about our editor today:

It makes a valid point. If you don’t want rich media, if all you want is text and forms, then, assuming you don’t want good text editing, web pages and AJAX is sufficient.

The link points to our Java-based editor landing page. Thanks for that Steve – now could I just get you in on a few sales calls?