Re: [orca-list] Some bugs with perhaps possible fixing in master branch



Hmm.  Now, I'm wondering how large FS really is.  I think they're
privately traded because I wasn't able to find a ticker symbol for
them.  I wanted to see if I could find out how much their shares sold
for and how many shares it had outstanding.  Multiply them and you get
a company's market capitalization which is a figure used to measure
the size of a company.  Sorry, I digress.  No more off topic msgs from
me.  That was my Financial Services background coming out.

Alex M

On 6/4/12, Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
Fascinating.  Thank you for sharing that.  Learn something new every day.

Alex M


On 6/4/12, Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu> wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Alex Midence wrote:

Valid point.  My thinking is that a commercial software vendor with
all its processes and such would also include a nice thorough market
research component prior to introduction of any feature since it
stands to reason that they would want to focus their efforts on
producing something that their buyers want and on something that their
competitors either don't have or improving upon what they do have.

Not necessarily. Having worked for a company in the industry in the past
(though not a screen reader company or a company as large as FS), I can
tell you that we certainly weren't doing any kind of formal market
research, conducting focus groups, etc. It might have been a good idea in
theory, but we were a small company and didn't have a large budget
despite
charging a substantial amount for the software, since our sales were
counted in the thousands (not in the millions, as you'd have with a
company like Microsoft). Often we would add features based on requests
from major users or from dealers who sold and supported our software. If
enough people asked for a feature through technical support and/or at
trade shows where we had a booth, then it might get brought up and added
in. So I think that there was informal "market research" going on but
nothing like what I'd presume a large company might do.

-Mike G-





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