ztect: re: "we spoke with several retailers about what the most common request was and quess what? It was E-commerce."
Very interesting. I correspond via email frequently with a manager at a Best Buy retail store in the Phoenix area. As of early September, 1998, he listed software requests received in his store in this order:
1) Games (by far)
2) Desktop Office (Microsoft office, Lotus SmartSuite, or individual product types within those suites, like spreadsheets or word processors)
3) Internet Utilities (browsers, web page builders, performance tuners, etc.)
4) Graphics (drawing packages, clipart, scanner utilities, etc.)
5) System software (Win98, diagnostic software, programming tools, etc.)
6) Miscellaneous
If the answer received by PINC was "E-Commerce", it makes me wonder what was the question that was asked. I'm not even sure which category "E-Commerce" would fit into in the above list. Either "Internet Utilities", or "Miscellaneous", I guess.
Just like statistics, you can make a marketing survey say anything you want it to say. It's all in the positioning of the question.
Note that I'm not saying E-Commerce has a poor future as a software market. I'm just curious how they came up with the answer that they did.
On another note, I finished evaluating that other Y2K software product that I was looking at (see VXTK thread). So, I started looking at MBCK and Survive 2000. Unfortunately, the download version of each only does the hardware checks, so there's not much to evaluate. The real meat is in the software compliancy portion. Other than forking out bucks for the whole package, does anybody have suggestions on how to get it? Maybe somebody has some connections that would give it to me for free?
Regards,
TED |
