So, I've posted my first critical topic in my company's forum. I have to admit, I'm not terribly happy about it.
Granted, I didn't mention the competition by name, only by inference as others in the particular forum topic mentioned the company by name.
It upsets me to no end that people (our customers and our non/potential customers alike) don't understand what goes in to rolling out any offering, much less a beta offering based on a newly-released technology. We could easily roll out hosting Plans based off of anything: Ruby, Rails, Ruby on Rails, CFMX8, .NET4.0, Silverlight, Apollo......you name it. However, there is CBA to consider. There is also the ideal of what releasing early does to our customer base and our reputation. As I stated in my post, it's easy to be first to release a new product based on a new technology. However, it's my belief that, while being first has it's place (heh...no pun intended) being the first to offer "seamless" integration with what customers/end-users are used to using is much better. What good is using a new product if, just after I'm used to the new syntax or functionality, I have to change it to conform to how my service provider feels the new product should be offered?
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