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View Poll Results: What type of softwares do you like??
Open-Source softwares	19	50.00%
Free for personal use softwares	10	26.32%
Free for personal and commercial use softwares	4	10.53%
Dirt cheap commercial quality softwares	1	2.63%
Dirt cheap windows platform commercial quality softwares that including the source codes	2	5.26%
Dirt cheap multi-platform commercial quality softwares that including the source codes	2	5.26%
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What Would You Pay?

Mar 5th, 2005

Hi everyone,

I have a general poll question. You see i have some software applications that i would be putting on a website. For example some of these applications are a spread sheet, a html processor, a word processor, an archiver/unarchiver and many more. The thing i don't know what price to set for these software applications.

For example the spread sheet is a clone of microsoft's excel written in java swing and i am thing of charging about US$20. Is it too pricey??

Another application is the html processor which is also a clone of microsoft's front page written in java swing and i will be charging about US$15 for it. Is it too pricey??

The thing is what is reasonable range of prices would you guys would pay for the above named software applications.

Another question i have is what are the kind of software you guys find useful in your workplace or home?
An example for me is Adobe reader but what about the rest of you guys??

Please don't ask me why i have built clones of commercial softwares - maybe i don't have an imagination of my own

Any kind of comments would be helpful

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Yours Sincerely

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Re: What Would You Pay?

Mar 5th, 2005

Are these java applications as feature-rich as their Microsoft counterparts? If so, they might provide good alternatives as portable solutions. Are they cross-platform? Do they require installers? Can they open / save in .doc format? If extraordinarily feature-rich as well as portable, I think you could charge as much as $30. Of course, since their portability would make them something unique. How much does MS Word cost? I do think that $15 and $20 are good prices though. If they're simply clones that don't offer any unique features, then maybe a tad less.

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Re: What Would You Pay?

Mar 6th, 2005

Hi everyone,

Let me answer your questions one by one

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Are these java applications as feature-rich as their Microsoft counterparts?.

More or less yes(but still needs some work)

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Are they cross-platform?

Since they are written in pure 100% java Yes

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Do they require installers??

We are still deciding on that as do we just need to include a installer and install the program or simply include a jar archive where the user can simply double click on the jar file to run it

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Can they open / save in .doc format?

If you are talking about Microsoft .doc format it does not seem to be multi-platform so we introduced our own doc format which is almost similar but we
still have to work on this and open to comments on this

Since my program is written in java the company i work for have tried to run the applications on a pda and even mobile phones and it works. For example we have a program which is something like Adobe PhotoShop(still needs some work) but we have managed to make it run on the pc, mobile phones and on a pda.

The thing is we don't really know is there a market for such things in the US and EU. We did do a survey and found that there was such a demand in China, India and other major asian economies.

Please note that for the running of java applications on the pda and mobile phones requires that we build our own jvm which has to be included by the various manufacturers which the company i work for are trying to strike a deal with at the moment

Hope to hear more from other users

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Re: What Would You Pay?

Mar 9th, 2005

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For example the spread sheet is a clone of microsoft's excel written in java swing and i am thing of charging about US$20. Is it too pricey??

Another question i have is what are the kind of software you guys find useful in your workplace or home?
An example for me is Adobe reader but what about the rest of you guys??

Please don't ask me why i have built clones of commercial softwares - maybe i don't have an imagination of my own

Any kind of comments would be helpful

Thank You

Yours Sincerely

Richard West

Hey Richard,
I think it's great that you can build that type of software. I wouldn't sell it seperately at that price...I think a better idea would be, to create a whole suit of applications and selling them as a whole...I think buyers tend to go for that more than a single application. As for creating "clones" of commercial software, I believe that's one of the best ways of learning.

Anyways, software I find helpful at home, is a programmers notepad(V.A.T.E) like JEdit, and I personally like math programs, although I don't use them very much.

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Mar 10th, 2005

Hi everyone,

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I think a better idea would be, to create a whole suit of applications and selling them as a whole.

Yes we are in the process of doing that. We offer both in the sense that we offer programs individually and also as a suite.

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Anyways, software I find helpful at home, is a programmers notepad(V.A.T.E) like JEdit, and I personally like math programs, although I don't use them very much.

We have a very simple to use java ide something like borland's turbo c but its for java. The only math programs i think we have are a line grapher, a pie chart grapher and a vertical bar grapher in where the graph can be exported as a png image.

I like your graphing tool on the java forum, it seem really great.
If possible please tell people of this thread so i can roughly know what the software market demands are. At this point i only have the views of two people and would really like to have more views.

At this moment in time we are also intending to include apis - something similar to what netscape did in late 1995(not sure if the year is correct).

For example we may start to include printing api's that a developer can use by wrapping his classes around them and for example to print the content of a multi-page JTable would take less than five lines of code. What do you think of selling royalty free apis'. Is it a good idea or a bad one??

What do you think is the reasonable price charge for the above described api?

Anyways I really appreciate your input and hope to hear from you on this issue again

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Hi everyone,
If possible please tell people of this thread so i can roughly know what the software market demands are. At this point i only have the views of two people and would really like to have more views.

I'll see what I can do. I think the best way, would be puting something in your signature that points to this thread..I could also put something in my signature if you like.

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At this moment in time we are also intending to include apis - something similar to what netscape did in late 1995(not sure if the year is correct).

For example we may start to include printing api's that a developer can use by wrapping his classes around them and for example to print the content of a multi-page JTable would take less than five lines of code. What do you think of selling royalty free apis'. Is it a good idea or a bad one??

What do you think is the reasonable price charge for the above described api?

I think idea of developing API's is great, especially for printing. Printing is one of the hardest concepts in programming, and if you could make an API that simlified it, there is no telling how much you could make. I'm not really good on pricing things like that, but some people will stick with the complicated way instead of paying, so you have to keep that in mind. Is there a way you could make it open source, and make the money from say advertisment's and stuff?

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Re: What Would You Pay?

Mar 10th, 2005

Who is your audience - what market and demographic are you targeting your software to?

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Mar 12th, 2005

Hi everyone,

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Is there a way you could make it open source, and make the money from say advertisment's and stuff?

There are certain apis which we may put up for use for commercial and non-commercial use but that has not been finalized yet.

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would be puting something in your signature that points to this thread?

How do i change my signature, i can't seem to find a way to do it. Do you know how?

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Who is your audience - what market and demographic are you targeting your software to?

I basically have three market at this moment at time but we expand the market in the future

The markets we are targetting are the database, developer and everyday office applications.

We have something in the works which is something like a clone of Microsoft access but we are trying to find out is there a market for such an application and there is is US$15 for it too pricey. What would you suggest is reasonable price??

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Mar 12th, 2005

Changing signature:

Go up to control panel...and then on the left hand side is a button that says edit signature, and that will take you to a screen that looks similar to that of making a post.

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Well, in an abstract way users like the software that does what they want, for as little money as possible. The more features that are percieved as useful, the more money ppl will pay. Me, if I can get what I want as freeware, then that'll do. I'm not so fooled by percieved usefulness. It's all a matter of marketing and hoping the prospective buyer doesn't know about about the cheaper product(s), if they exist.