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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 10 comming soon?

Author: Shaley

Date: 06:37:06 08/29/05

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On August 29, 2005 at 07:29:54, Frank Mueller wrote:

>On August 29, 2005 at 07:07:47, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>IMO chessbase is not giving enough money to the programmers.
>
>For programmers business with Chessbase might be a somewhat tricky thing. On the
>one hand, market leader CB is able to provide good marketing channels and market
>penetration, even for older software versions. For example, some weeks ago I saw
>a special edition of Shredder 7 sold for 9.00 Euro or so in a big department
>store. The salesperson told me that it is selling pretty good.
>On the other hand, CB people mainly concentrate on Fritz. Fritz here, Fritz
>there, everywhere Fritz. I don't want to question the programming skills of
>Frans Morsch, but his programmer colleagues might feel like the second driver or
>even the replacement driver in a Forumula-1 car, who don't get the same support
>and the same conditions like no. 1 driver and thus can't show that they are on
>par with him.
>
>Frank



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