Re: Rating Minivend

["Rob Zimmerman" <rob@readysite.net>]

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Many thanks for your words! I spent a more than a few hours at several 
review pages at  Zdnet and Pcworld. I left messages to all authors asking 
why Minivend was not included in their reviews and expressed my opinion on 
the Free Software Foundation. 

Should I here back I will post their coments here. 

Thanks again for that review!

Rob 
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> 
> Being subjective (as I am may be an unreasonably stubborn believer in
> the MiniVend package), I throw in my 0.0176 Euro worth of comment:
>  
> I do not think it is easy to get an independent, comprehensive survey
> about how MiniVend is valued in comparison to other commercial storefront
> packages. Large companies, who use MiniVend successfully, do not run out
> and show off with it. They are too embarrassed to admit that they were 
> able to save ten or hundred thousands of dollars in their investment
> switching over to MiniVend.
>  
> As long as MiniVend itself doesn't become a commercial package, companies
> won't open up their books to show what they invested in building sites
> with a commercial package and what they saved and how well
> they performed in building and running the same applications with
> MiniVend.
>  
> I HEARD about one case where a company invested $150,000.00 in a
> MiniVend-based solution compared to an investment more than 
> $1,000,000.00 on the same applications with no better, even less 
> return on their investment than the first company.
>  
> I KNOW of another case where a company could invest $ 100,000.00 and
> more and refuses to consider MiniVend, because it is NOT a commercial
> package. So, if they will decide to use MiniVend, they keep it to them-
> selves if it works nicely, and will complain loudly if it would not.
>   
> I WITNESSED that MiniVend can be used to build sites like amazon.com.
>  
> MiniVend was already capable of being set-up (given enough knowledge, 
> funds and a suitable existing business to do e-trade with) with 
> a 1.2 million record product.asc file (even without any additional 
> commercial database), relying on GDBM tables, indexing, binary searches, 
> glimpse text searches and later the static page built feature, in
> late 1996/1997. Later on, it has been proven that MiniVend can deal with
> heavy loads. Today it can add flexibly all the bells and whistles
> a storefront needs.
>  
> MiniVend (as is right now) is expensive only on the use of your mental
> faculties. Otherwise it is most cost efficient and flexible.
>  
> I wonder how this could be shown through an independent market research.
> I just know, because I have seen it happening in front of my eyes. 
> One can't know if one hasn't had a chance to build sites this
> large, which also are capable of attracting heavy traffic. 
>  
> Someone today said kindly, that MiniVend has come a long way since 1995.
> I add, there were already all the seeds in place to grow into what it can
> do today a long time ago in late 1996. 
>  
> If that sounds too much like cheer-leading, you have heard right.
>   
> I think MiniVend can do amazing things. Period. Now, I stop here, 
> this is already worth more than 0.0167 Euro, more like $ 0.03.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Birgitt Funk
>  
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