Dean
Some of the most successful companies I know sell "brochureware" consisting of screenshots made up in photoshop with an impressive featurelist. Once a punter appears, these companies decide whether to develop or to declare the product "discontinued". They've done it for years; companies that develop quality software and market what they have, struggle to compete. So they end up doing Brochureware too. Soon the market is awash with brochureware and the customer industry can no longer tell what is real and what is a huge risk. So who benefits?
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
