Looking for Beta Testers for Training Log Software

[Stuart Tevendale]

Hi,
We're looking for about 10 people to test a pre-release version of our
Windows Training Diary software. The software requires Windows 98 SE
or newer.

We're looking for athletes who use Polar S610, S625x, S710, S720, S725
or S810 Heart Rate Monitors (with or without cycling/running sensors)
and have one of the Polar computer interfaces. You should be willing
to use our software in parallel with either Polar's own Precision
Performance software or other third-party application that you
regularily use. You should be training at least 3 - 4 times a week
with your HRM.

In return for your feedback, we'll provide you with a full license for
the final version of TrainingLog.

If you are interested, send us details of your sports, training
schedule and heart rate monitor. Email - [email protected]

Thanks & Regards

Stuart Tevendale
Director
OTAG Technologies Ltd

 

[Steve]

Stuart Tevendale wrote:
> Hi,
> We're looking for about 10 people to test a pre-release version of our
> Windows Training Diary software. The software requires Windows 98 SE
> or newer.
>
> We're looking for athletes who use Polar S610, S625x, S710, S720, S725
> or S810 Heart Rate Monitors (with or without cycling/running sensors)
> and have one of the Polar computer interfaces. You should be willing
> to use our software in parallel with either Polar's own Precision
> Performance software or other third-party application that you
> regularily use. You should be training at least 3 - 4 times a week
> with your HRM.
>
> In return for your feedback, we'll provide you with a full license for
> the final version of TrainingLog.
>
> If you are interested, send us details of your sports, training
> schedule and heart rate monitor. Email - [email protected]
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Stuart Tevendale
> Director
> OTAG Technologies Ltd
HOw about an S510 and linux... that's newer than 98

Steve

 

[erics]

"Stuart Tevendale" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi,
> We're looking for about 10 people to test a pre-release version of our
> Windows Training Diary software. The software requires Windows 98 SE
> or newer.
>
> We're looking for athletes who use Polar S610, S625x, S710, S720, S725
> or S810 Heart Rate Monitors (with or without cycling/running sensors)
> and have one of the Polar computer interfaces. You should be willing
> to use our software in parallel with either Polar's own Precision
> Performance software or other third-party application that you
> regularily use. You should be training at least 3 - 4 times a week
> with your HRM.
>
> In return for your feedback, we'll provide you with a full license for
> the final version of TrainingLog.
>
> If you are interested, send us details of your sports, training
> schedule and heart rate monitor. Email - [email protected]
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Stuart Tevendale
> Director
> OTAG Technologies Ltd

What would you say are the main advantages your software has over the Polar
software?

 

[Francesco Devittori]

Stuart Tevendale wrote:
> Hi,
> We're looking for about 10 people to test a pre-release version of our
> Windows Training Diary software. The software requires Windows 98 SE
> or newer.
>
> We're looking for athletes who use Polar S610, S625x, S710, S720, S725
> or S810 Heart Rate Monitors (with or without cycling/running sensors)
> and have one of the Polar computer interfaces. You should be willing
> to use our software in parallel with either Polar's own Precision
> Performance software or other third-party application that you
> regularily use. You should be training at least 3 - 4 times a week
> with your HRM.
>
> In return for your feedback, we'll provide you with a full license for
> the final version of TrainingLog.
>
> If you are interested, send us details of your sports, training
> schedule and heart rate monitor. Email - [email protected]
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Stuart Tevendale
> Director
> OTAG Technologies Ltd

Still writing software for Windows? No Linux version?
bad thing...

 

[Mike Tennent]

Francesco Devittori <frenkatfrenkdtcm> wrote:

>
>Still writing software for Windows? No Linux version?
>bad thing...


Maybe they want sell more than 3 copies worldwide?

Mike Tennent
"IronPenguin"

 

[Phil M.]

Leafing through rec.sport.triathlon, I read Mike Tennent's message of 10
Nov 2004:

>>Still writing software for Windows? No Linux version?
>>bad thing...
>
>
> Maybe they want sell more than 3 copies worldwide?

lol.

Phil M. - Still waiting for beta video tapes to make a comeback.

 

[Doki]

Mike Tennent wrote:
> Francesco Devittori <frenkatfrenkdtcm> wrote:
>
>>
>> Still writing software for Windows? No Linux version?
>> bad thing...
>
>
> Maybe they want sell more than 3 copies worldwide?

Maybe they just want to be able to sell it. How many linux users are you
going to convince to *pay* for software, when there's so much perfectly
sketchy GPL software around?

 

[Mark]

"Doki" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>
> Mike Tennent wrote:
>> Francesco Devittori <frenkatfrenkdtcm> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Still writing software for Windows? No Linux version?
>>> bad thing...
>>
>>
>> Maybe they want sell more than 3 copies worldwide?
>
> Maybe they just want to be able to sell it. How many linux users are you
> going to convince to *pay* for software, when there's so much perfectly
> sketchy GPL software around?

As stated by a misguided Micro$oft lover?

 

[Andrew Martin]

Francesco Devittori <frenkatfrenkdtcm> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>
> Still writing software for Windows? No Linux version?
> bad thing...

I can only assume you're not serious. Consumer marketshare is still
vastly Windows focused. You'd have to be an idiot to go into business
for a niche market (bicycle training) supporting a platform with as
small a reach as Linux.

 

[Nick Kew]

In article <[email protected]>,
"Doki" <[email protected]> writes:

> Maybe they just want to be able to sell it. How many linux users are you
> going to convince to *pay* for software, when there's so much perfectly
> sketchy GPL software around?

I have both Linux and Windows users pay for software. As well as
occasional Mac and Solaris users.

In fact, the software most of them are willing to pay for is GPL -
they can download the source themselves from the same page that
invites them to pay.

--
Nick Kew

 

[Robert Lorenzini]

On 10 Nov 2004 08:50:43 -0800, Andrew Martin wrote:
> Francesco Devittori <frenkatfrenkdtcm> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>>
>> Still writing software for Windows? No Linux version?
>> bad thing...
>
> I can only assume you're not serious. Consumer marketshare is still
> vastly Windows focused. You'd have to be an idiot to go into business
> for a niche market (bicycle training) supporting a platform with as
> small a reach as Linux.

I would be willing to try it under the wine emulator. I rarely use windows.


Bob

 

[Phil M.]

Leafing through rec.sport.triathlon, I read Mark's message of 10 Nov 2004:

>
> "Doki" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>>
>> Mike Tennent wrote:
>>> Francesco Devittori <frenkatfrenkdtcm> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Still writing software for Windows? No Linux version?
>>>> bad thing...
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe they want sell more than 3 copies worldwide?
>>
>> Maybe they just want to be able to sell it. How many linux users are you
>> going to convince to *pay* for software, when there's so much perfectly
>> sketchy GPL software around?
>
> As stated by a misguided Micro$oft lover?

It's called facing reality. Sony Beta was the best format in video tape
back in the 80s. Smaller tapes and better quality. It didn't take long for
Beta tapes to become virtually extinct. This was mainly due to marketing
decisions on both sides.

I agree that MS is not the best, but they have such a stronghold on the
computer industry that software compnanies cannot ignore them and hope to
turn a profit.

Phil M.

--
"What counts in battle is what you do once the pain sets in." -John Short,
South African coach.

 

[Drew]

Just curious if you're still looking for volunteers? Can the app
import .HRM files as I have an s410 and use other software to convert
to .HRM.


[email protected] (Stuart Tevendale) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Hi,
> We're looking for about 10 people to test a pre-release version of our
> Windows Training Diary software. The software requires Windows 98 SE
> or newer.
>
> We're looking for athletes who use Polar S610, S625x, S710, S720, S725
> or S810 Heart Rate Monitors (with or without cycling/running sensors)
> and have one of the Polar computer interfaces. You should be willing
> to use our software in parallel with either Polar's own Precision
> Performance software or other third-party application that you
> regularily use. You should be training at least 3 - 4 times a week
> with your HRM.
>
> In return for your feedback, we'll provide you with a full license for
> the final version of TrainingLog.
>
> If you are interested, send us details of your sports, training
> schedule and heart rate monitor. Email - [email protected]
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Stuart Tevendale
> Director
> OTAG Technologies Ltd

 

[Mark]

"Phil M." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Leafing through rec.sport.triathlon, I read Mark's message of 10 Nov 2004:
>
>>
>> "Doki" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike Tennent wrote:
>>>> Francesco Devittori <frenkatfrenkdtcm> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Still writing software for Windows? No Linux version?
>>>>> bad thing...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maybe they want sell more than 3 copies worldwide?
>>>
>>> Maybe they just want to be able to sell it. How many linux users are you
>>> going to convince to *pay* for software, when there's so much perfectly
>>> sketchy GPL software around?
>>
>> As stated by a misguided Micro$oft lover?
>
> It's called facing reality. Sony Beta was the best format in video tape
> back in the 80s. Smaller tapes and better quality. It didn't take long for
> Beta tapes to become virtually extinct. This was mainly due to marketing
> decisions on both sides.
>
> I agree that MS is not the best, but they have such a stronghold on the
> computer industry that software compnanies cannot ignore them and hope to
> turn a profit.

I am not arguing that MS has a stronghold. I do however, have an issue
stating that GPL software is sketchy.
I am a BSD man and most of the software written for BSD is far superior to
anything Microsoft has. It just makes me laugh when people bad mouth
OpenSource software and yet most of the web/email servers out there are just
that. Micro$oft hasn't and cannot compete with Apache and sendmail and
qmail.
At least, any good system administrator will tell you that.
Microsoft products are ****.


>
> Phil M.
>
> --
> "What counts in battle is what you do once the pain sets in." -John Short,
> South African coach.

 

[Francesco Devittori]

Andrew Martin wrote:
> Francesco Devittori <frenkatfrenkdtcm> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>
>>Still writing software for Windows? No Linux version?
>>bad thing...
>
>
> I can only assume you're not serious. Consumer marketshare is still
> vastly Windows focused. You'd have to be an idiot to go into business
> for a niche market (bicycle training) supporting a platform with as
> small a reach as Linux.

You would be surprised to know how many people are using training logs
under linux or other various non-windows os!
And you would be yet more surprised to know how many of these people
actually wrote their own software.
If you are a developer and your software is really that great, then
people will pay for it -even linux users.

(btw, greatest software is usually cross-platform -and mostly free)

 

[Benjamin Lewis]

Francesco Devittori wrote:

> You would be surprised to know how many people are using training logs
> under linux or other various non-windows os! And you would be yet more
> surprised to know how many of these people actually wrote their own
> software. If you are a developer and your software is really that great,
> then people will pay for it -even linux users.

I'd guess that Linux users are *much* less likely to pay for great software
than Windows users. A large number of people running Linux do so because
they support open source and free software, and even those who care less
about this are still used to having lots of good free software readily
available to them. Windows users are more used to having to pay for their
software, assuming they don't steal it, and so will do so more readily.

All of my Windows software (OS + some games) is paid for.
None of my Linux software (everything else) is.

Of course, I would have bought Linux versions of those games if they'd been
available, so that partly destroys my point...

--
Benjamin Lewis

Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away.

 

[Benjamin Lewis]

Francesco Devittori wrote:

> You would be surprised to know how many people are using training logs
> under linux or other various non-windows os! And you would be yet more
> surprised to know how many of these people actually wrote their own
> software. If you are a developer and your software is really that great,
> then people will pay for it -even linux users.

I'd guess that Linux users are *much* less likely to pay for great software
than Windows users. A large number of people running Linux do so because
they support open source and free software, and even those who care less
about this are still used to having lots of good free software readily
available to them. Windows users are more used to having to pay for their
software, assuming they don't steal it, and so will do so more readily.

All of my Windows software (OS + some games) is paid for.
None of my Linux software (everything else) is.

Of course, I would have bought Linux versions of those games if they'd been
available, so that partly destroys my point...

--
Benjamin Lewis

Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away.

 

[Matt O'Toole]

Andrew Martin wrote:

> Francesco Devittori <frenkatfrenkdtcm> wrote in message
> news:<[email protected]>...
>>
>> Still writing software for Windows? No Linux version?
>> bad thing...
>
> I can only assume you're not serious. Consumer marketshare is still
> vastly Windows focused. You'd have to be an idiot to go into business
> for a niche market (bicycle training) supporting a platform with as
> small a reach as Linux.

I'd say you'd be an idiot to ignore all those body-nazi yuppie triathletes with
Macs. Write the thing in Java, or some other cross platform tookit, so you
don't have to exclude anyone. Of course, if all you know how to do is program
for Windows...

Matt O.

 

[Phil M.]

Leafing through rec.sport.triathlon, I read Mark's message of 10 Nov 2004:

> At least, any good system administrator will tell you that.
> Microsoft products are ****.

I must suck then. ;-)

Phil M., MCSE

 

[marco]

I tend to agree with you. Ignoring Macs and Linux user is a mistake
even because it seems that the next step that MS is going to take is
to develop his own unix based program. As coach in the past I didn't
buy a lot of software just because it wasn't made for my MAC. This is
the main reason why I don't buy a perfect rower (who the heck is still
using DOS?)
It is not that hard and it might be a very good market move.
Marco

Francesco Devittori <frenkatfrenkdtcm> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Andrew Martin wrote:
> > Francesco Devittori <frenkatfrenkdtcm> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> >
> >>Still writing software for Windows? No Linux version?
> >>bad thing...
> >
> >
> > I can only assume you're not serious. Consumer marketshare is still
> > vastly Windows focused. You'd have to be an idiot to go into business
> > for a niche market (bicycle training) supporting a platform with as
> > small a reach as Linux.
>
> You would be surprised to know how many people are using training logs
> under linux or other various non-windows os!
> And you would be yet more surprised to know how many of these people
> actually wrote their own software.
> If you are a developer and your software is really that great, then
> people will pay for it -even linux users.
>
> (btw, greatest software is usually cross-platform -and mostly free)