Comments on: Proto http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/04/13/proto/ A country datasmith. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:22:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Proto - desktop BI tool. « Gobán Saor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/04/13/proto/#comment-2882 Proto - desktop BI tool. « Gobán Saor Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:23:46 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/proto/#comment-2882 [...] product as a “desktop business intelligence system”. This is to be welcomed as the first time I used it I described it as a “mash-up tool for adults” and although it has the ability to play [...] [...] product as a “desktop business intelligence system”. This is to be welcomed as the first time I used it I described it as a “mash-up tool for adults” and although it has the ability to play [...]

]]> By: What's up Docs & Spreadsheets? « Gobán Saor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/04/13/proto/#comment-769 What's up Docs & Spreadsheets? « Gobán Saor Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:40:31 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/proto/#comment-769 [...] S3 as the back-end data store). But I didn’t use VBA within Excel, instead as I was also investigating Proto I used this excellent Proto example as my starting [...] [...] S3 as the back-end data store). But I didn’t use VBA within Excel, instead as I was also investigating Proto I used this excellent Proto example as my starting [...]

]]> By: Byron http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/04/13/proto/#comment-689 Byron Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:49:29 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/proto/#comment-689 Tom - it's a deal. We'll sell up to a total of 50 licenses over the next 90 days (through 7/13/07) at $79.50, a 90% discount to the listed price for Proto Individual (http://www.protosw.com/products/purchase). This offer is open to anyone who mentions your blog post. Tom – it’s a deal.

We’ll sell up to a total of 50 licenses over the next 90 days (through 7/13/07) at $79.50, a 90% discount to the listed price for Proto Individual (http://www.protosw.com/products/purchase). This offer is open to anyone who mentions your blog post.

]]> By: gobansaor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/04/13/proto/#comment-681 gobansaor Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:26:38 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/proto/#comment-681 Hi Byron, Sounds good to me! How about $79.50 per seat ? Which if you were to pitch a version of your product at the SMB Excel Add-In market would correspond to the sort of prices these add-ins are currently sold at e.g. http://www.office-addins.com/-excel-addins/ozgrid-excel-addins-collection.html Tom Hi Byron,

Sounds good to me!

How about $79.50 per seat ? Which if you were to pitch a version of your product at the SMB Excel Add-In market would correspond to the sort of prices these add-ins are currently sold at e.g. http://www.office-addins.com/-excel-addins/ozgrid-excel-addins-collection.html

Tom

]]> By: Byron http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/04/13/proto/#comment-677 Byron Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:45:50 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/proto/#comment-677 This is great! Thanks for your continued interest in Proto. It's really encouraging to see proof that someone can fill in a product shortcoming (JOIN operations in this case) through VBA and then make that available to others via the online component library. I wanted to respond quickly to the two points / suggestions you made: 1. The Excel dependency is an installer bug that we’re fixing in the next version of Proto, but Proto does not fundamentally require Excel to run. As such, we think of Excel as another resource for data and services that Proto can interface with, but we don't consider either product an add-on to the other. 2. Pricing. It's never easy to price a new product, and that is especially true when (as with Proto) you're testing the waters to see where the strongest community of customers exists. We would love to see more grass roots uptake by reaching individuals like you through the web, and we are of course interested therefore in your opinion. Without getting into all the details of our pricing considerations, I’d like to put the following offer / experiment on the table: name a price that you think is right for individuals and then for the next 90 days we’ll honor that price for any customers that reference this blog post. Sound good? This is great! Thanks for your continued interest in Proto. It’s really encouraging to see proof that someone can fill in a product shortcoming (JOIN operations in this case) through VBA and then make that available to others via the online component library.

I wanted to respond quickly to the two points / suggestions you made:
1. The Excel dependency is an installer bug that we’re fixing in the next version of Proto, but Proto does not fundamentally require Excel to run. As such, we think of Excel as another resource for data and services that Proto can interface with, but we don’t consider either product an add-on to the other.

2. Pricing. It’s never easy to price a new product, and that is especially true when (as with Proto) you’re testing the waters to see where the strongest community of customers exists. We would love to see more grass roots uptake by reaching individuals like you through the web, and we are of course interested therefore in your opinion. Without getting into all the details of our pricing considerations, I’d like to put the following offer / experiment on the table: name a price that you think is right for individuals and then for the next 90 days we’ll honor that price for any customers that reference this blog post. Sound good?

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