Quote - 3. Get it through the vendor's head that they HAVE TO DO MARKET REASEARCH!  This isn't field of dreams.  Just because they build it, doesn't mean people will buy it.

Definitely... a I'd also suggest that listening to forums like this is almost certainly not qualifying as scientific market research...

...so I dunno how you'd do it. Probably a survey of the broader user base with a reply incentive I guess... e.g. a random selection of respondents getting some sort of reward... that sort of thing?

Maybe Rendo would sponsor that sort of enterprise (or already do??) or else club together with a bunch of other vendors and do it...

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