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by powertower 5551 days ago
I have the same exact issue here:

http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper

How to convince the developer that the solution provided is ahead of what he/she can just put together...

It really is, but conveying that is difficult.

I imagine the questions are "Why would I buy what I can get for free?" and "I can probably do better myself?"

Both of the questions are false (other solutions are free only if your time is worthless + the solution is a product of 7+ years of improvements/iterations) but try to tell that to someone (who right at that moment thinks they know better).

Perhaps I should look into other market segments.
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larrik 5551 days ago
Have you seen xampp?

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

The page you linked to says to me "we're selling xampp!" If that isn't what you are doing, then you should look at your sell page.

If you are indeed just a paid version of xampp, then good luck with that.

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powertower 5551 days ago
Do you mean that literally (re-packaging xampp) or metaphorically (I can get this for free, over there)?

WampDeveloper has nothing to do with xampp. The only similarities are: WampDeveloper uses Apache, PHP, and MySQL on Windows.

That's another problem: that some visitors think "xampp"?

Even though WampDeveloper is a completely different system/framework, switches between all versions of Apache, PHP, and MySQL with a click, creates and manages all websites/VirtualHosts, has a full user interface, has a web application installer for Wordpress, Joomla, MediaWiki, Drupal, Magento, controls "local DNS" ... etc. All the things xampp does not do.

Or are you coming back to the "Why would I buy what I can get for free?" question.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into it some more.

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