Is GemX Another ADM?

Posted by Cassius
Jun 28, 2008 at 05:01 AM

Thomas wrote:
>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.
>

Thomas is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! In response to an inquiry I made 8+ years ago about the slow development of Zoot 4.0, Tom Davis admitted that much of the delay had to do with problems integrating Zoot with Outlook (or at least establishing a usable interface/linking). He mused about whether he had erred in pursuing Outlook integration.

-c