Re: Looking for specialised skills/product/advice (farming)

George,


1) Your price tag is extreamelly steep. Sorry but I can not see my self buying your components.

I usually would not get into a discussion on this matter however, because this subject is very actual for me lately, I can't hold myself.

To give you an example of what I mean:
One of our customers uses EzPlan-IT and created a scheduling application for production plants. This system sells for 40000 euro's or more. Companies using his software have shown an increase of production of 10% and that's worth a multitude of that amount per month.

In this light, our sales price of 700 Euro's is a laugh and therefore we are seriously reconsidering our prices.

You might argue that the same thing applies to a grid control which -of course- he is using too. But that would only be the case if the control is a minor part of the application. In this case though, EzPlan-IT is a big part of the application.


2) your ezProject application is more a demo of the abilities of your components than an application to actually use. I seem to have found the following problems so far.
a) Gantt View.
1) When the task list is bigger than my screen there is no
vertical scroll bar to use. The mouse wheel does the job though.

I think you have overlooked the vertical scrollbar located besides the gantt chart (on the far right of the screen).

2) Adding more than two scale settings in the time scale options
renders the headers of grid unreadable. There is no way, that I
could find, to actually change the height of the header to
something I could read.

This would be something a developer would have to add to the application himself. However, I'll see if I can squeeze it in sometime.

b) Resource Gantt.
1) the same problem with the vertical bar

I do not recognize this problem. Could you send me a screendump?

2) there is a button on top of the resource grid with
caption = Button1 and when pressed it cleans all the resources
from the resource grid. I guess a left over from development.

EzProject is indeed only a sample application showing the capabilities of our components. Sometimes code used for testing purposes isn't removed when releasing a new version, which is the case here.

I have updated the demo application with the latest version so you might want to download the demo again.


I do not thing I'll be buying anything from you soon although I liked the idea of constraints and how the change in one task's time coold force the dependand task to shift as needed. This is the only thing that had me considered to buy your products but it is not enough.

If this is all you're looking for, you should not buy EzPlan-IT since you don't need it. However, if you look a little further you would see the real potential of this product and the applications you can create with it. Maybe you also will be able to sell your software for 40000 Euro's or more.

Kees Vermeulen
Kever-IT
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