Date:  Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:23:12 -0300
From:  madodel at ptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Papyrus sponsoring


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From: "Frank Wochatz" <mailDESPAM at DESPAMsubsys.de> 


Today development of native applications is nearly at zero. The last
standing vendors you can count on two hands. One of the last vendors is
the company ROM logicware, well known in germany as the developer of the
office software Papyrus. Further development, especially the development
of the upgrade to version 11 (available for Windows and Mac for a long
time) is still in the air for more than 6 months now.

I think its time to do something.

I believe there is enough interest from endusers or companies, which are
able to sponsor the development with an additional financial gift outsite
of the normal licences.

I did the first step with my engineer office, and pitched an amount of 500
EUR into the pot. I have published the initiative, and some other sponsers
have since come around. Currently we are at 1.200,- EUR total, and the
sponsors itself also intend to buy an additional 13 licences. In sum you
can say its a value of over ~2000 EUR.

One condition of the sponsoring would be, that there will be an open beta
test for the upcoming product. Another condition from us would be, that
operating system specific bugs will be fixed. 


Ulli Ramps, CEO of ROM logicware said last December, that they would need
at least 100 licences to cover the costs to develop the upgrade to Papyrus
11. Maybe there are some higher requirement to make the version available
in english. But currently there are only ~50 users (counted on the update
from papyrus 9.x to v.10).


I think we (the sponsors) should cover the biggest part of the neccessary
costs, so development should be independent of single user registrations. 

If you would like to sponsor the product, then please contact me. Best is
to use the text form, which is available from here:

English form:
http://www.subsys.de/misc/Pap11OS2en.zip

German form:
http://www.subsys.de/misc/Pap11OS2.zip


Please fill it out, and send it to me (per fmail, fax or snail mail). You
will find contact addresses in the form. Please send only the form, no
money at this moment!



kind regards
Frank Wochatz



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