Re: [mmox] 3-world OGP interop scenario

[[e-mail]]

Granted my preferences as stated here: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/mmox/current/msg01140.html are a sample of one and I made no attempt to exagerate them. However your statement that my preference is weak may be a false assumption unless you have marketing studies to back it up. Larger companies have the benefit of being able to afford to conduct studies which measure preferences such as these quite accurately, and accountants who are trained in methods of assigning value to "intangibles". It's the small business who cant afford these studies who must resort to shooting from the hip to answer questions such as these, and unfortunately leave the fate of their businesses to the will of chance.

Best Regards,
-Tom Hoff


----- Original Message ----
From: Jon Watte <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Cc: MMOX-IETF <[e-mail]>
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:02:22 PM
Subject: Re: [mmox] 3-world OGP interop scenario

[e-mail] wrote:
> As a user, I would prefer a client which could connect to multiple services, and I would partially base my decision on which services were desirable to subscribe to by how capable 

It's great that you prefer this! To get a measurement (of a sample of one), could you answer this question?
How much, in dollars, would you pay for this client, as opposed to downloading separate clients to separate worlds?


>  another company, another barrier to entry. While I probably would not be willing to pay extra for a client which could function with multiple worlds, companies that
>  

So the answer is zero dollars? That means that your preference is quite weak, almost not measurable (economically speaking).

Sincerely,

jw