well, when you are running a small business, and you are the boss, well, sometimes you go looking for trouble, and sometimes trouble goes looking for you.....
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Having a shared development platform would be cool, but all I'm doing is sharing the NOD on a drive. Takes care of collisions on development when u use sneakernet that way.
And since I have probably more years of software development and design management than most users, your statement
No one is going to say what is in the pipe for any software company. It just doesn't happen that way.
is flat out wrong.
Your two available options are:
1. No - NOF is EOL(end of life), and we are not presently working on upgrades, patches, new versions or enhancements.
As you may be well aware, the cost of $50 or even $200 is infinitesimal to the opportunity cost of hours, weeks, and months of staff training on a package. Not to mention the years of work that go into maintaining a website, if you are doing it on your own. Browsers change, Apache changes, php changes, google has new requirements for css and js serving, and being stuck on a platform that has zero chance of addressing these pressing issues, risks $$$$ that far exceed the cost of the software.
2. Yes - NOF has a development team, and we are working on a release at some future time. It could come next week, next month, next year, two years from now, depends on how hard we work, but we are at least coding shit. Hey, things are going so badly, we might throw all the code out and start over from scratch, but yes we are coding.
I really don't care about a when, because it is what it is, and you are correct about "freezing" purchases. But you're sadly mistaken to think users shouldn't care if their software platform is EOL or not. Because they do.
I might feel comfortable in letting my staff continue on NOF knowing that at least we might be able to import in our old sites if a new version of NOF or a new app comes out from a "related" team. Otherwise, it might be time to migrate to a new platform, as painful and EXPENSIVE as that might be.
Weirdly enough, NOF could enjoy a renaissance due to Google's new-found religion of site speed. NOF's creation of static HTML is not a bad thing, especially if you change your main page text often.
I've spent the last week in the underbelly of google's site ranking algorithms, and I can guarantee you that google is not sitting still and are pushing for tighter and tighter code and they are enforcing that by rewarding sites with higher rankings that comply.
So I'm currently running NOF 10, purchased way back in 07 and ignored the 11 launch due to the company confusion, which is water under the bridge. And we've limped along. With three websites that enjoy page ranks of 6 and top 3 placements in our key words. The sites are ugly, but they work.