Replies to post #31029 on Sphere 3D Corp. (ANY)

[macnqueso]

a very apropos analogy... so... no they are not going to post it on the internet or do a white paper and so on... there are very specific limits as to who and how people even within the company can access glassware... even those who work on its development... an interesting story, but not one that will be told today at least by me... glassware is proprietary... s3d has an obligation to its shareholders to protect it especially during the early phases of its monetization...

so we are left with two general sets of opinions regarding glassware...

1) the opinion of those who have never used it or participated in a demonstration of it, but have nonetheless concluded that it does not work...

2) or those who are in various stages of working with the product as clients and/or partners... and who have provided remarkably consistent feedback that it works as advertised...

each investor may then decide to which of these two perspectives he or she will lend the most credence...

[Hugodrax]

The Coke analogy is silly. Yes consumers don't need to know the specific recipe when they guzzle it.

Software companies, CIOs, and businesses, actually do care very very much how products work.

What you don't get is that I'm not referring to the source code, but specifications. Simple examples:

how does Glassware handle security - how do I now my data is safe?

With no more XP vulnerability patches, how do I know my software that is now in the cloud or on a server won't be compromised?

SSL encryption? How many bits? 128? 256? AES?

If I buy Glassware, how can I handle Active Directory or LDAP integration?

How do I access local resources (e.g. Wi-Fi printing from an iPad) when accessing an app remotely (this seems to have been a Corel problem)

What is the license management infrastructure?

How is networking handled? If the app I want to host on Azure needs to pull data from a file inside my private firewall how is that handled?

Can my IT dept's USB token authenticate my ID both locally and on the cloud app in the same session?

My app is designed for a keyboard and mouse interface but my employees will be accessing through iPads - what kind of tools are provided to make this work - can I toggle a mouse pointer on and off? What about all the built-in keyboard shortcuts on my app - how do I use those from a tablet.

What are the specs on latency?


And so on.


It *seems* to me that ANY invites customers to talk about it, and then maybe they can customize a solution. That is fine, but is typically a much slower ramp.

If you want an out of the box product that people can buy, you have to explain it in detail. Nobody is going to trust their business apps to Colonel Sanders that just says "trust me, my chicken is tasty".