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The app's been built, now what?

On the computer side of the businees there is me, the developer.
Another person's role is that of the idea man...the person that knows
the business and requirements and issues for the business. Together we
put together an application we both think is of value.

The app is written. Of course, the app is not finished. I suppose I
could work on this app for the rest of my days adding new features and
enhancing and adjusting as new software/hardware is created that opens
up new markets and potential. Conceivably this app could be a never
ending job. But it has enough features to go to market now and
hopefully be a success.

Have any of you created an application that you have taken to market?

I'd be curious to know what you did to make it a success. Did you do a
lot of cold calling? Did you attend lots of conventions? How did you
determine the pricing? Did you do a lot of mailings? Did you have a
good marketing background? Did you hire someone with experience in
marketing to get the ship off the ground and into the water? Were there
any books you considered a "bible" for getting your software on the
market and sold? Were there any companies that helped you get your app
to market and sold? Did you work with ISVs? Did you create
partnerships with other companies?

Your advice, opinions, and viewpoints are welcome.
Nov 13 '05 #1
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On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:44:36 GMT, Salad <oi*@vinegar.co m> wrote:

Where to begin answering your post?
I think that for most real software companies, writing the app is
almost an afterthought. It's all about marketing. They would NEVER
write an app before they would know who needs it, whom they're
competing with, how they will advertise it, what pricepoint will work,
etc.

Anecdote: a friend and retired medical doctor figured many people
would want what he wanted: a medical data and events database for
families. Record when your kids had the measles, your weight over
time, the outcome of a blood test, etc. He would be willing to invest
20K+ and sell it at $100+ a pop. He had some screen designs worked
out. I did half an hour of research at tucows.com and found half a
dozen such apps, for $20-60 each. The advice we gave him: if you like
the experience of working with us on this app, the thrill of having
your brain child in the market place, then do it. If you expect to
make money, then don't.

joelonsoftware. com has a nice blog about software development. Every
now and then a gem about the business/marketing side of it.

We have a custom software development company. Every now and then we
are approached by a potential client looking for a partnership: "I
have the greatest idea, and here is some documentation about the
potential in the marketplace. You develop it (for free or very reduced
rate), and I help you market it. We could both make a nice profit". We
will never do that, mostly because we don't know that industry as well
as they do, and we can't gauge the truth of all these claims. Your
dream isn't my dream.

-Tom.

On the computer side of the businees there is me, the developer.
Another person's role is that of the idea man...the person that knows
the business and requirements and issues for the business. Together we
put together an application we both think is of value.

The app is written. Of course, the app is not finished. I suppose I
could work on this app for the rest of my days adding new features and
enhancing and adjusting as new software/hardware is created that opens
up new markets and potential. Conceivably this app could be a never
ending job. But it has enough features to go to market now and
hopefully be a success.

Have any of you created an application that you have taken to market?

I'd be curious to know what you did to make it a success. Did you do a
lot of cold calling? Did you attend lots of conventions? How did you
determine the pricing? Did you do a lot of mailings? Did you have a
good marketing background? Did you hire someone with experience in
marketing to get the ship off the ground and into the water? Were there
any books you considered a "bible" for getting your software on the
market and sold? Were there any companies that helped you get your app
to market and sold? Did you work with ISVs? Did you create
partnerships with other companies?

Your advice, opinions, and viewpoints are welcome.


Nov 13 '05 #2
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:44:36 GMT, Salad <oi*@vinegar.co m> wrote:

Where to begin answering your post?
I think that for most real software companies, writing the app is
almost an afterthought. It's all about marketing. They would NEVER
write an app before they would know who needs it, whom they're
competing with, how they will advertise it, what pricepoint will work,
etc.

Anecdote: a friend and retired medical doctor figured many people
would want what he wanted: a medical data and events database for
families. Record when your kids had the measles, your weight over
time, the outcome of a blood test, etc. He would be willing to invest
20K+ and sell it at $100+ a pop. He had some screen designs worked
out. I did half an hour of research at tucows.com and found half a
dozen such apps, for $20-60 each. The advice we gave him: if you like
the experience of working with us on this app, the thrill of having
your brain child in the market place, then do it. If you expect to
make money, then don't.

joelonsoftware. com has a nice blog about software development. Every
now and then a gem about the business/marketing side of it.

We have a custom software development company. Every now and then we
are approached by a potential client looking for a partnership: "I
have the greatest idea, and here is some documentation about the
potential in the marketplace. You develop it (for free or very reduced
rate), and I help you market it. We could both make a nice profit". We
will never do that, mostly because we don't know that industry as well
as they do, and we can't gauge the truth of all these claims. Your
dream isn't my dream.

-Tom.

On the computer side of the businees there is me, the developer.
Another person's role is that of the idea man...the person that knows
the business and requirements and issues for the business. Together we
put together an application we both think is of value.

The app is written. Of course, the app is not finished. I suppose I
could work on this app for the rest of my days adding new features and
enhancing and adjusting as new software/hardware is created that opens
up new markets and potential. Conceivably this app could be a never
ending job. But it has enough features to go to market now and
hopefully be a success.

Have any of you created an application that you have taken to market?

I'd be curious to know what you did to make it a success. Did you do a
lot of cold calling? Did you attend lots of conventions? How did you
determine the pricing? Did you do a lot of mailings? Did you have a
good marketing background? Did you hire someone with experience in
marketing to get the ship off the ground and into the water? Were there
any books you considered a "bible" for getting your software on the
market and sold? Were there any companies that helped you get your app
to market and sold? Did you work with ISVs? Did you create
partnerships with other companies?

Your advice, opinions, and viewpoints are welcome.


Nov 13 '05 #3
find a customer first. get him pay you, then do the job.
and you build your skills, and experience which maybe useful in find a
database career.

Nov 13 '05 #4
find a customer first. get him pay you, then do the job.
and you build your skills, and experience which maybe useful in find a
database career.

Nov 13 '05 #5
Tom van Stiphout wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:44:36 GMT, Salad <oi*@vinegar.co m> wrote:

Where to begin answering your post?
I think that for most real software companies, writing the app is
almost an afterthought. It's all about marketing. They would NEVER
write an app before they would know who needs it, whom they're
competing with, how they will advertise it, what pricepoint will work,
etc.
Yes. In my case, it was the opposite. My idea man, quite a visionary
in his industry, runs a business. When he started it 10 years ago he
decided that if he were to succeed he needed to invest in technology.
So as he ran his business and grew it he started working on his app,
investing in hardware and software and several years later he he hired
me and together we built the app to meet, and now meets, the demands of
his business. Although the app is tailered to his market, with very
little modification (mostly some lookup tables) it could be converted to
being used in several other vertical markets.
Anecdote: a friend and retired medical doctor figured many people
would want what he wanted: a medical data and events database for
families. Record when your kids had the measles, your weight over
time, the outcome of a blood test, etc. He would be willing to invest
20K+ and sell it at $100+ a pop. He had some screen designs worked
out. I did half an hour of research at tucows.com and found half a
dozen such apps, for $20-60 each. The advice we gave him: if you like
the experience of working with us on this app, the thrill of having
your brain child in the market place, then do it. If you expect to
make money, then don't.
We know what software programs are out there for this industry. If one
had existed like ours, he would not have created this app. Why reinvent
the wheel if the wheel exists?

Some of the software programs are so cost prohibitive to small
businesses that those software companies have limited their market.
Other packages address issues that are applicable to a very small
segment of the industry. There are other software packages are web
based and are more tailored to the customers and clients of the company
and are not directed towards the workflow of the company performing the
work whereas ours is designed around the company's workflow. These
other packages have good ideas but are not designed to run the business
of the company and lack features necessary for the business. I have no
doubt we are lacking some features too, but we know what they are and
those issues are minor and can always be added when demand requires it.
If we waited until everything is perfect we could lose our edge and
opportunity.
joelonsoftware. com has a nice blog about software development. Every
now and then a gem about the business/marketing side of it.
I'll check that out. Thanks.
We have a custom software development company. Every now and then we
are approached by a potential client looking for a partnership: "I
have the greatest idea, and here is some documentation about the
potential in the marketplace. You develop it (for free or very reduced
rate), and I help you market it. We could both make a nice profit". We
will never do that, mostly because we don't know that industry as well
as they do, and we can't gauge the truth of all these claims. Your
dream isn't my dream.
I agree. That tends to sound like makework without much of a business plan.

Have you ever built a custom app for a company that you feel has a
definite market potential for that industry? Have you taken that app to
market? That's my situation.

-Tom.
On the computer side of the businees there is me, the developer.
Another person's role is that of the idea man...the person that knows
the business and requirements and issues for the business. Together we
put together an application we both think is of value.

The app is written. Of course, the app is not finished. I suppose I
could work on this app for the rest of my days adding new features and
enhancing and adjusting as new software/hardware is created that opens
up new markets and potential. Conceivably this app could be a never
ending job. But it has enough features to go to market now and
hopefully be a success.

Have any of you created an application that you have taken to market?

I'd be curious to know what you did to make it a success. Did you do a
lot of cold calling? Did you attend lots of conventions? How did you
determine the pricing? Did you do a lot of mailings? Did you have a
good marketing background? Did you hire someone with experience in
marketing to get the ship off the ground and into the water? Were there
any books you considered a "bible" for getting your software on the
market and sold? Were there any companies that helped you get your app
to market and sold? Did you work with ISVs? Did you create
partnership s with other companies?

Your advice, opinions, and viewpoints are welcome.


Nov 13 '05 #6
Tom van Stiphout wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:44:36 GMT, Salad <oi*@vinegar.co m> wrote:

Where to begin answering your post?
I think that for most real software companies, writing the app is
almost an afterthought. It's all about marketing. They would NEVER
write an app before they would know who needs it, whom they're
competing with, how they will advertise it, what pricepoint will work,
etc.
Yes. In my case, it was the opposite. My idea man, quite a visionary
in his industry, runs a business. When he started it 10 years ago he
decided that if he were to succeed he needed to invest in technology.
So as he ran his business and grew it he started working on his app,
investing in hardware and software and several years later he he hired
me and together we built the app to meet, and now meets, the demands of
his business. Although the app is tailered to his market, with very
little modification (mostly some lookup tables) it could be converted to
being used in several other vertical markets.
Anecdote: a friend and retired medical doctor figured many people
would want what he wanted: a medical data and events database for
families. Record when your kids had the measles, your weight over
time, the outcome of a blood test, etc. He would be willing to invest
20K+ and sell it at $100+ a pop. He had some screen designs worked
out. I did half an hour of research at tucows.com and found half a
dozen such apps, for $20-60 each. The advice we gave him: if you like
the experience of working with us on this app, the thrill of having
your brain child in the market place, then do it. If you expect to
make money, then don't.
We know what software programs are out there for this industry. If one
had existed like ours, he would not have created this app. Why reinvent
the wheel if the wheel exists?

Some of the software programs are so cost prohibitive to small
businesses that those software companies have limited their market.
Other packages address issues that are applicable to a very small
segment of the industry. There are other software packages are web
based and are more tailored to the customers and clients of the company
and are not directed towards the workflow of the company performing the
work whereas ours is designed around the company's workflow. These
other packages have good ideas but are not designed to run the business
of the company and lack features necessary for the business. I have no
doubt we are lacking some features too, but we know what they are and
those issues are minor and can always be added when demand requires it.
If we waited until everything is perfect we could lose our edge and
opportunity.
joelonsoftware. com has a nice blog about software development. Every
now and then a gem about the business/marketing side of it.
I'll check that out. Thanks.
We have a custom software development company. Every now and then we
are approached by a potential client looking for a partnership: "I
have the greatest idea, and here is some documentation about the
potential in the marketplace. You develop it (for free or very reduced
rate), and I help you market it. We could both make a nice profit". We
will never do that, mostly because we don't know that industry as well
as they do, and we can't gauge the truth of all these claims. Your
dream isn't my dream.
I agree. That tends to sound like makework without much of a business plan.

Have you ever built a custom app for a company that you feel has a
definite market potential for that industry? Have you taken that app to
market? That's my situation.

-Tom.
On the computer side of the businees there is me, the developer.
Another person's role is that of the idea man...the person that knows
the business and requirements and issues for the business. Together we
put together an application we both think is of value.

The app is written. Of course, the app is not finished. I suppose I
could work on this app for the rest of my days adding new features and
enhancing and adjusting as new software/hardware is created that opens
up new markets and potential. Conceivably this app could be a never
ending job. But it has enough features to go to market now and
hopefully be a success.

Have any of you created an application that you have taken to market?

I'd be curious to know what you did to make it a success. Did you do a
lot of cold calling? Did you attend lots of conventions? How did you
determine the pricing? Did you do a lot of mailings? Did you have a
good marketing background? Did you hire someone with experience in
marketing to get the ship off the ground and into the water? Were there
any books you considered a "bible" for getting your software on the
market and sold? Were there any companies that helped you get your app
to market and sold? Did you work with ISVs? Did you create
partnership s with other companies?

Your advice, opinions, and viewpoints are welcome.


Nov 13 '05 #7
If you were to give me the type of market you are looking for, I might be
able to provide better advice...
I have use the advice that swiminging gave you and had success. However
this only applies to a small market. If you are looking for a large market,
you might go to a large business that uses software that is like yours and
see what advantages yours has over theirs. If you find yours to be
superior, you then drop hints to those who are running the software and see
if they are pleased with their present software program. If you hear that
they are displeased ask them what it is they are displeased with. If your
software handles that complaint, you could then start a conversation with
that person and find out what they are looking for. Sometimes, in my case
it has been 100% success in finding out their status on if they are looking
into a change for their software program that better suits their business
needs, in which case you can present yourself to them and then give them a
presentation that is applicable for both you and the business. This has
worked for me in the fields of Accounting software programs, Video Rental
software programs, and Lawn Business software programs. There are a lot of
variables when you are trying to price your code. If you do it a business
at a time until you have a large following of businesses you have to charge
a fair sum for the initial purchase of the software and charge by the hour
for each businesses special needs to fine tune it for their purpose. This
in itself can be a full time operation at first and requires other people to
help you when you have more refining of your software than you have time.
When you get to this point, word of mouth works wonders.

When you are at this point is when you need to decide on launching your
program to the web. After you have solved where you niche in the market is
and developed it with actual businesses you have a record you can use for a
referral. Advertise in PC Mags with a demo that can't be broken and you may
just have a new PeachTree, QuickBooks, or FamilyLawyer program for all to
buy.

Right now I am working on a nation wide database for certain consumers of
professional services. It will start out as a community service until it
takes off or goes broke.

My brother C.E.O. of the defunct Roaster Technologies helped to make JAVA
what it is today and made it accessible to Microsoft. If the dot com
disaster had been one year later his company may have survived and Microsoft
would be licensing the technologies that he developed. Rather than been
bought out.
Timing is important!!!
"Salad" <oi*@vinegar.co m> wrote in message
news:8C******** *********@newsr ead2.news.pas.e arthlink.net...
On the computer side of the businees there is me, the developer. Another
person's role is that of the idea man...the person that knows the business
and requirements and issues for the business. Together we put together an
application we both think is of value.

The app is written. Of course, the app is not finished. I suppose I
could work on this app for the rest of my days adding new features and
enhancing and adjusting as new software/hardware is created that opens up
new markets and potential. Conceivably this app could be a never ending
job. But it has enough features to go to market now and hopefully be a
success.

Have any of you created an application that you have taken to market?

I'd be curious to know what you did to make it a success. Did you do a
lot of cold calling? Did you attend lots of conventions? How did you
determine the pricing? Did you do a lot of mailings? Did you have a good
marketing background? Did you hire someone with experience in marketing
to get the ship off the ground and into the water? Were there any books
you considered a "bible" for getting your software on the market and sold?
Were there any companies that helped you get your app to market and sold?
Did you work with ISVs? Did you create partnerships with other companies?

Your advice, opinions, and viewpoints are welcome.

Nov 13 '05 #8
If you were to give me the type of market you are looking for, I might be
able to provide better advice...
I have use the advice that swiminging gave you and had success. However
this only applies to a small market. If you are looking for a large market,
you might go to a large business that uses software that is like yours and
see what advantages yours has over theirs. If you find yours to be
superior, you then drop hints to those who are running the software and see
if they are pleased with their present software program. If you hear that
they are displeased ask them what it is they are displeased with. If your
software handles that complaint, you could then start a conversation with
that person and find out what they are looking for. Sometimes, in my case
it has been 100% success in finding out their status on if they are looking
into a change for their software program that better suits their business
needs, in which case you can present yourself to them and then give them a
presentation that is applicable for both you and the business. This has
worked for me in the fields of Accounting software programs, Video Rental
software programs, and Lawn Business software programs. There are a lot of
variables when you are trying to price your code. If you do it a business
at a time until you have a large following of businesses you have to charge
a fair sum for the initial purchase of the software and charge by the hour
for each businesses special needs to fine tune it for their purpose. This
in itself can be a full time operation at first and requires other people to
help you when you have more refining of your software than you have time.
When you get to this point, word of mouth works wonders.

When you are at this point is when you need to decide on launching your
program to the web. After you have solved where you niche in the market is
and developed it with actual businesses you have a record you can use for a
referral. Advertise in PC Mags with a demo that can't be broken and you may
just have a new PeachTree, QuickBooks, or FamilyLawyer program for all to
buy.

Right now I am working on a nation wide database for certain consumers of
professional services. It will start out as a community service until it
takes off or goes broke.

My brother C.E.O. of the defunct Roaster Technologies helped to make JAVA
what it is today and made it accessible to Microsoft. If the dot com
disaster had been one year later his company may have survived and Microsoft
would be licensing the technologies that he developed. Rather than been
bought out.
Timing is important!!!
"Salad" <oi*@vinegar.co m> wrote in message
news:8C******** *********@newsr ead2.news.pas.e arthlink.net...
On the computer side of the businees there is me, the developer. Another
person's role is that of the idea man...the person that knows the business
and requirements and issues for the business. Together we put together an
application we both think is of value.

The app is written. Of course, the app is not finished. I suppose I
could work on this app for the rest of my days adding new features and
enhancing and adjusting as new software/hardware is created that opens up
new markets and potential. Conceivably this app could be a never ending
job. But it has enough features to go to market now and hopefully be a
success.

Have any of you created an application that you have taken to market?

I'd be curious to know what you did to make it a success. Did you do a
lot of cold calling? Did you attend lots of conventions? How did you
determine the pricing? Did you do a lot of mailings? Did you have a good
marketing background? Did you hire someone with experience in marketing
to get the ship off the ground and into the water? Were there any books
you considered a "bible" for getting your software on the market and sold?
Were there any companies that helped you get your app to market and sold?
Did you work with ISVs? Did you create partnerships with other companies?

Your advice, opinions, and viewpoints are welcome.

Nov 13 '05 #9
KnightKnives wrote:
If you were to give me the type of market you are looking for, I might be
able to provide better advice...
OK. It is software for running a business for a subcontractor; not a
General contractor, not a residential contractor, not a cash-n-carry
contractor, but a commercial subcontractor. It doesn't do accounting as
a company would be better off with an accounting program. It doesn't do
estimating as the company would be better off with a program that excels
in estimating. My program can (and does) interface with the accounting
program and it does use information from the estimating program. But
this program project manages and runs the business.
I have use the advice that swiminging gave you and had success. However
this only applies to a small market. If you are looking for a large market,
you might go to a large business that uses software that is like yours and
see what advantages yours has over theirs. If you find yours to be
superior, you then drop hints to those who are running the software and see
if they are pleased with their present software program. If you hear that
they are displeased ask them what it is they are displeased with. If your
software handles that complaint, you could then start a conversation with
that person and find out what they are looking for. Sometimes, in my case
it has been 100% success in finding out their status on if they are looking
into a change for their software program that better suits their business
needs, in which case you can present yourself to them and then give them a
presentation that is applicable for both you and the business. This has
worked for me in the fields of Accounting software programs, Video Rental
software programs, and Lawn Business software programs. There are a lot of
variables when you are trying to price your code. If you do it a business
at a time until you have a large following of businesses you have to charge
a fair sum for the initial purchase of the software and charge by the hour
for each businesses special needs to fine tune it for their purpose. This
in itself can be a full time operation at first and requires other people to
help you when you have more refining of your software than you have time.
When you get to this point, word of mouth works wonders.
Good advice.
When you are at this point is when you need to decide on launching your
program to the web. After you have solved where you niche in the market is
and developed it with actual businesses you have a record you can use for a
referral. Advertise in PC Mags with a demo that can't be broken and you may
just have a new PeachTree, QuickBooks, or FamilyLawyer program for all to
buy.
Yes. I see your point. Get some customers, get some "converts" that
spread the word, and advertise.
Right now I am working on a nation wide database for certain consumers of
professional services. It will start out as a community service until it
takes off or goes broke.
Good luck and much success.
My brother C.E.O. of the defunct Roaster Technologies helped to make JAVA
what it is today and made it accessible to Microsoft. If the dot com
disaster had been one year later his company may have survived and Microsoft
would be licensing the technologies that he developed. Rather than been
bought out.
Timing is important!!!
Yes, that is why I want to get my app into the marketplace soon.
"Salad" <oi*@vinegar.co m> wrote in message
news:8C******** *********@newsr ead2.news.pas.e arthlink.net...
On the computer side of the businees there is me, the developer. Another
person's role is that of the idea man...the person that knows the business
and requirements and issues for the business. Together we put together an
application we both think is of value.

The app is written. Of course, the app is not finished. I suppose I
could work on this app for the rest of my days adding new features and
enhancing and adjusting as new software/hardware is created that opens up
new markets and potential. Conceivably this app could be a never ending
job. But it has enough features to go to market now and hopefully be a
success.

Have any of you created an application that you have taken to market?

I'd be curious to know what you did to make it a success. Did you do a
lot of cold calling? Did you attend lots of conventions? How did you
determine the pricing? Did you do a lot of mailings? Did you have a good
marketing background? Did you hire someone with experience in marketing
to get the ship off the ground and into the water? Were there any books
you considered a "bible" for getting your software on the market and sold?
Were there any companies that helped you get your app to market and sold?
Did you work with ISVs? Did you create partnerships with other companies?

Your advice, opinions, and viewpoints are welcome.


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I've been researching multi-threaded WinForms apps and thread synchronization stuff for a couple days since I'm working on refactoring a multi-threaded GUI app at work and want to be sure it's rock solid/thread-safe. I've seen all the posts about using BeginInvoke to have worker threads interact with the UI. My question is this: I created a plain old Windows Form application (VS.NET 2005) with a blank form, built it (release build), ran...
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by: iKiLL | last post by:
Hi All, As the subject suggests. I am attempting to build a C# application from with in VS2005 that can have add ons built for it to give it additional functionality. It will be a Windows Mobile 5 application using CF2.0.
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by: mase | last post by:
I've built a new ASP.NET web app with the CSLA framework. The site runs fine with a small number of users, but once there is any traffic the CPU spikes at 100%. I went through and made many updates to plug various memory leaks. Glad that I did that and it probably helped out some, but the issues still exists. The application was built the proper scalable architecture but can't seem to handle the load. I've been watching performance...
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by: dixonjm | last post by:
Hi, I am new to the built in health monitoring functionality that comes built into the .net framework. I have followed a v.good video tutorial and I cant seem to get the last part of my code to work correctly... I have configured my app to display an error page (when necessary) and this will write errors to the event viewer along with my custom error messages - this works fine. My problem is when I try to write these same errors to sql....
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by: dbuchanan | last post by:
Hello, (Is this the proper newsgroup?) === Background === I am building a solution with two projects. One project is my data access layer which contains my DataSet as an xsd file. The XSD file was built by draging tables from the Data Sources pane. Auto-generated code created the files associated wtih the XSD file (xss,
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by: =?Utf-8?B?S2plbGw=?= | last post by:
Hello I've taken a four days training in C#, very good training, experienced teacher and all that, very positive. Went home spent a week making my first application, slightly more than the usual "Hello world". Took it with me to my best customer, and beleive it or not....It will not work !!!!
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by: marktang | last post by:
ONU (Optical Network Unit) is one of the key components for providing high-speed Internet services. Its primary function is to act as an endpoint device located at the user's premises. However, people are often confused as to whether an ONU can Work As a Router. In this blog post, we’ll explore What is ONU, What Is Router, ONU & Router’s main usage, and What is the difference between ONU and Router. Let’s take a closer look ! Part I. Meaning of...
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by: Hystou | last post by:
Most computers default to English, but sometimes we require a different language, especially when relocating. Forgot to request a specific language before your computer shipped? No problem! You can effortlessly switch the default language on Windows 10 without reinstalling. I'll walk you through it. First, let's disable language synchronization. With a Microsoft account, language settings sync across devices. To prevent any complications,...
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by: Hystou | last post by:
Overview: Windows 11 and 10 have less user interface control over operating system update behaviour than previous versions of Windows. In Windows 11 and 10, there is no way to turn off the Windows Update option using the Control Panel or Settings app; it automatically checks for updates and installs any it finds, whether you like it or not. For most users, this new feature is actually very convenient. If you want to control the update process,...
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by: tracyyun | last post by:
Dear forum friends, With the development of smart home technology, a variety of wireless communication protocols have appeared on the market, such as Zigbee, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc. Each protocol has its own unique characteristics and advantages, but as a user who is planning to build a smart home system, I am a bit confused by the choice of these technologies. I'm particularly interested in Zigbee because I've heard it does some...
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by: agi2029 | last post by:
Let's talk about the concept of autonomous AI software engineers and no-code agents. These AIs are designed to manage the entire lifecycle of a software development project—planning, coding, testing, and deployment—without human intervention. Imagine an AI that can take a project description, break it down, write the code, debug it, and then launch it, all on its own.... Now, this would greatly impact the work of software developers. The idea...
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by: isladogs | last post by:
The next Access Europe User Group meeting will be on Wednesday 1 May 2024 starting at 18:00 UK time (6PM UTC+1) and finishing by 19:30 (7.30PM). In this session, we are pleased to welcome a new presenter, Adolph Dupré who will be discussing some powerful techniques for using class modules. He will explain when you may want to use classes instead of User Defined Types (UDT). For example, to manage the data in unbound forms. Adolph will...
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by: conductexam | last post by:
I have .net C# application in which I am extracting data from word file and save it in database particularly. To store word all data as it is I am converting the whole word file firstly in HTML and then checking html paragraph one by one. At the time of converting from word file to html my equations which are in the word document file was convert into image. Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument.Select();...
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by: TSSRALBI | last post by:
Hello I'm a network technician in training and I need your help. I am currently learning how to create and manage the different types of VPNs and I have a question about LAN-to-LAN VPNs. The last exercise I practiced was to create a LAN-to-LAN VPN between two Pfsense firewalls, by using IPSEC protocols. I succeeded, with both firewalls in the same network. But I'm wondering if it's possible to do the same thing, with 2 Pfsense firewalls...
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bsmnconsultancy
by: bsmnconsultancy | last post by:
In today's digital era, a well-designed website is crucial for businesses looking to succeed. Whether you're a small business owner or a large corporation in Toronto, having a strong online presence can significantly impact your brand's success. BSMN Consultancy, a leader in Website Development in Toronto offers valuable insights into creating effective websites that not only look great but also perform exceptionally well. In this comprehensive...

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