The answer to Dawn's question a couple of months ago:


"Raining Data's installed customer base includes more than 500,000 active
users representing over 20,000 customer sites worldwide, with a significant
base of diverse vertical applications."

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070214/law097.html?.v=74

On Feb 15, 1:22 pm, "Jeff Caspari" <FDFDF... (AT) sneakernet (DOT) com.invalid>
wrote:
No Wonder IBM dont want to market U2 outside of the MV community -
pleny of scope for expansion there

I found it interesting that they placed the TigerLogic product ahead of
the Pick DBMS in their list of flagship products. I wonder if there is
any significance to that.

Jeff Caspari wrote:

On Feb 16, 5:53 am, sh <sham... (AT) prupipe (DOT) com> wrote:
R&D, that YES, there is significance.

I also note that John Bramley is being extricated from TL to take
responsibility for TL AND the Database products .... I think that this
can only be a good thing !?

On Feb 15, 7:22 am, "Jeff Caspari" <FDFDF... (AT) sneakernet (DOT) com.invalid>
wrote:

Thanks, Jeff. Did someone give an estimate on the number of VARs this
represented earlier? I'm forgetting. Some of these are end-
customers. If we figure and average of 100 customers per VAR (this
average includes both their customers and some from the "no-VAR"
pile), that would be about 200 VARs perhaps?

It would be interesting to do a survey of those VARs and see which
ones are in the process of migrating to something else and if they
are, find out where in that process they are and what they are
migrating to. On the other hand, that would be a bit of a
troublemaker thing to do, quite unlike me. smiles. --dawn

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in
news:1171649349.620807.65270 (AT) j27g2000cwj (DOT) googlegroups.com:

Getting close to the edge, are we?

Regards,
Joe

"Ross Ferris" wrote:
Where did you hear this? Technically I think this is great. I have
nothing but the highest regard for JB. For reasons I can't get into
here there could be other ramifications of this move that aren't as
universally good as we might hope.

T

"dawn" wrote:
Averages don't tell the real story as there are some VARs that have a
couple hundred sites with 1-3 users.

Such a survey is impossible at the moment given that only RD has
access to their reseller base. RD won't do this sort of base-wide
survey, it's not in their nature, and they certainly won't commission
anyone else to do it - they have their heads too far *********** in
the sand to get this introspective.

Even if you made a request of the RDTA VAR group, which is completely
unused but still in place, you wouldn't get a real sense of who is
doing what. Consider that no matter how much a company wants to move
away from RD, it's simply not in most people's best interest to make a
statement about such things in public. The way it happens in the real
world is that we just stop hearing specific people talk about a
specific platform, and at some point (unless they've completely moved
away from MV) we may see them starting to talk about some other
platform.

T

I'm obviously no accountant.

What does it mean when more than 50% of the company's assets are in
"Goodwill"?

Why aren't software or knowledge resources considered assets? It
seems whenever they lose someone with a clue, many of us consider that
to be the loss of a valued asset. I understand it's tough to quantify
such things but it seems obvious that addition or removal of these
intangibles has almost measurable effects on the bottom line.

T

Dawn - it's a safe "bet" that the "active users" is the number of license
seats, as opposed to true users,
which means that you need to factor down a bit.
Tom

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote