Is GemX Another ADM?

Posted by Thomas
Jun 27, 2008 at 11:48 PM

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>re Email client: Writing a
>so-so email client is real easy. SQLNotes has all the basics (HTML editor, POP read,
>SMTP write, storage). However, writing an excellent email client is a daunting task
>(IMAP, GMail, Spam filters, etc), as IMHO GemX has learned, the hard way.

Very well said. For many users it might still suffice. But soon you find yourself competing with Outlook and Thunderbird as your users ask for this and that. And you find that the drag&drop emailing controls that made the development of the so-so client so easy, are a bit of a limiting factor. Then come the bug reports from users and you find yourself a full-time email client developer, competing with your paid product against the free (Thunderbird) or almost built-in or kind of enforced (Outlook) or free service (Gmail) softwares that most use anyway and they will still keep asking you to include that Outlook sync or cooperation anyway even if you have your own built-in email client.