Hi Hypertherm,
They are interesting points. IMHO even though there are free products that are successful they are usually of the open source type with a massive community adding to them. In this case we’re talking about a commercial product even though it’s free. From a product marketing point of view the combination paid product with added free product can be interesting but I don’t feel that this is some modest option here.
I believe that GT Comm is very important and should become marketed as a separate product in order to put the spotlight on the crucial function it plays within a multi-GT-product web-sit situation your case 1) above.
Using it in a mono GT product situation, your case 2) is indeed very interesting for those type of users, and I see it, as a bit of a luxury that is potentially hindering the users that are actually using it the way it’s intended. I think it would also be fairly easy to envisage a “lite” version of it to cover this type of user. (But GT may think I’m being over confident in their time to spare here).
GT Comm is also playing a part in a crucial area that needs to be spot on in view the security issues involved, this also seems to me to be a good reason to have a sound product. In view of the requests that clients like myself and others have voiced so far I feel that treating this important piece of GT software as a separate crucial piece of software is the way forward
John
Significant Media
They are interesting points. IMHO even though there are free products that are successful they are usually of the open source type with a massive community adding to them. In this case we’re talking about a commercial product even though it’s free. From a product marketing point of view the combination paid product with added free product can be interesting but I don’t feel that this is some modest option here.
I believe that GT Comm is very important and should become marketed as a separate product in order to put the spotlight on the crucial function it plays within a multi-GT-product web-sit situation your case 1) above.
Using it in a mono GT product situation, your case 2) is indeed very interesting for those type of users, and I see it, as a bit of a luxury that is potentially hindering the users that are actually using it the way it’s intended. I think it would also be fairly easy to envisage a “lite” version of it to cover this type of user. (But GT may think I’m being over confident in their time to spare here).
GT Comm is also playing a part in a crucial area that needs to be spot on in view the security issues involved, this also seems to me to be a good reason to have a sound product. In view of the requests that clients like myself and others have voiced so far I feel that treating this important piece of GT software as a separate crucial piece of software is the way forward
John
Significant Media
