Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Promoting Frontier Use

Author:Russell Lipton
Posted:7/19/2000; 7:46:33 AM
Topic:Promoting Frontier Use
Msg #:18763
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This is probably not a new idea, but what about a shrink-wrapped version of Frontier (PC Connection and other mail-order vendor ready) for $75 list ($45 real price?) that only supports serving one web site? Annual follow-on subscriptions for that kind of use would be handled online.

Besides the obvious, I'm thinking that this reasonably challenges experimenting hackers-power users to give it a serious shot; may conveniently support Napster-like desktop server experiments in the Userland community and, if Manila-template stuff is packaged appropriately, enable even non-power users to run their own (single) Frontier-served Manila site on their own desktop.

Expanding the use of Pike will be nice too.

It isn't too hard these days to put together a retail package fairly inexpensively and most of the documentation could still be handled as an online service.

Maybe raise the price of the full version since most of those users are likely to be corporations and the like who ought to know they're getting a great deal, even at, say, $1299?

Just some passing thoughts for possible discussion.

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