Re: Thoughts on a Wolfram|Alpha package for
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- Subject: [mg101914] Re: Thoughts on a Wolfram|Alpha package for
- From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:24:20 -0400 (EDT)
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In short I think that it has to do with the company's choices for their business model and whether or not they mandate internally a requirement to push 3rd party items. If he internal sales force does not *actively* do this then 3rd party items will not move out into the market. --David On Jul 20, 7:21 pm, AES <sieg... at stanford.edu> wrote: > In article <h41f31$rf... at smc.vnet.net>, David Reiss <dbre... at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Sadly 3rd party application for Mathematica sell very poorly--rarely > > even beginning to recoup the cost to develop them. But I could do > > this if there were a couple of hundred users willing to purchase it. > > I'd welcome your thoughts (or anyone's) on _why_ this is the case? > > (I have my own ideas, but reality checks are always useful.)