[2837] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
VENDOR: ZipLock wants to hear from OS/2 ISV's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timur Tabi)
Sun Apr 27 15:48:42 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 27 Apr 1997 19:06:49 GMT
From: ttabi@crystal.cirrus.com (Timur Tabi)
Reply-To: ttabi@crystal.cirrus.com (Timur Tabi)
Reply-to: ttabi@crystal.cirrus.com (Timur Tabi)
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I sent email to Portland Software (http://www.ziplock.com) about a native OS/2
version of their Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) software, ZipLock.
Currently, one OS/2 vendor (see below) uses their Windows app because,
apparently, there are no acceptable OS/2 solutions available.
Portland Software said that they need to hear from OS/2 ISV's and users to
consider an OS/2 port. If you are an OS/2 ISV and are interested in ESD,
please email Nancy Kirkpatrick (nancy@portsoft.com) at Portland Software
directly and ask her for an OS/2 port.
If you are an OS/2 user and would like to see your OS/2 software use ZipLock,
please email your favorite OS/2 ISV's and ask them to email Portland Software.
About ESD:
ESD is a method of delivering software to end users electronically (e.g. over
the Internet). Currently, there are companies which will do this for you, like
BMT Micro and whatever Stardock uses. However, these services add an extra
fee to the product. Using an ESD, the vendor doesn't have a per-purchase
surcharge, so the cost to the end-user is lower.
ZipLock works by including the software to make the purchase _with_ the
software itself. So you download the software, unpack it, and try it out. If
you like it, you can initiate an online purchase. Once the purchase is
approved, an unlocking key is sent to you.
Basically, it works a lot like conventional online purchasing, except that the
cost to the vendor is greatly reduced, and these savings are passed on to you.
Nancy Kirkpatrick wrote:
>
> Hello, Timur-
>
> Thank you for your interest in our providing a ZipLock client on OS/2. To
> date, we have not had an OS/2 ZipLock solution requested from enough OS/2
> publishers to warrant the engineering effort of providing this option. We
> need their support to move forward at this point in time.
>
> Perhaps you could help me in this endeavor by providing names of contacts
> that you have with these OS/2 publishers that you refer to below. Or, see if
> they would discuss this with me further, and have them give me a call, or
> I'll be happy to contact them. Thank you for your input and any help you can
> provide in this matter.
>
> Regards,
> Nancy Kirkpatrick
> Portland Software
> Sales Specialist
> 503-220-2300
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Timur Tabi
Crystal Semiconductor
ttabi@crystal.cirrus.com
.. In Windows 95, no one can hear you scream
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