A new venture!

We are pleased to announce that we have launched a new service for our customers and all those who have needs related to software.

In that sense we have established an affiliation agreement with RegNow (the
industry leader in providing e-commerce processing services and online credit card processing for vendors and authors of PC and Macintosh software, freeware, shareware, electronic art, shopping cart, ecommerce provider and other data).

We are starting with 2 stores: SofStore.com and ArSol.net and we have plans to offer different sort of services:

• Discount coupons
• Software reviews
• Personalized advice to specific needs of buying products

As usual, we will try our best effort, to give our customers the more qualified service.

For any question related with our software stores, please drop us a mail to:

editor at sofstore dot com or  

info at arsol dot net

 

Two editors working on these topics will respond asap to help you.

An important poll to my business

Some time ago on OISV forum I was remarked that the name of my company sound very bad (as a bad word) on English because the pronunciation.

When I selected such name I was searching a name that sound aproximately the same on English and Spanish (my native language), and a bit short, to make easy the people remember it. Then ArSol comes to my mind as an acronym of my last name and the word "solutions".

I used it a lot of years, invested a lot of time and money on it, but wihtout being aware about this bad meaning on English. Now I'm relly worried by the need of change the name to stay on business (The global market to any MicroISV talk English) .

Some persons of BoS forum and OISV forum tell me that I must change the name to have opportunity on the English market (were I already worked and sold software and services even with such name) and other persons (mainly from other countries of Europe) tell me that is a good name, that don't sound bad to they.

Then, guess what? I thinked on a poll to ask about this important (to me) topic, and is here (Thanks by your vote!):

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Second Poll about MicroISV profitability

First of all, let me thanks all the voters of my previous poll!.

Even lot of people think that the future (and present ) of the most apps is the web format, surfing MicroISV sites, is possible to see lots of desktop apps.

Not all apps are suitables to be on web format, right, but I'm talking of such apps that could be presented even as web or desktop app.

I know that the question may sound so general, but I want to ask opinions from the point of view of potential of sales, development costs, future possibilities and with the goal of reach the broader possible customer base.

Feel free to send me your comments besides the vote,

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Software Profitability to a Micro-ISV

As entrepreneur of software industry I would like to collect some opinions about different questions related with the business of a Micro-ISV. In such sense I've the idea of publish some polls to know the opinion of other people, mainly people related with the IT industry with some experience on these topics.

Let me start with a simple poll to identify what sort of software is worth to develop, selecting only between two options.

Thanks in advance by your participation!

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