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Date:      Fri, 02 Nov 2001 11:34:29 -0800
From:      David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
To:        Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NatWest? no thanks
Message-ID:  <3BE2F545.CD94EECC@acuson.com>
References:  <3BE1CC99.D3C8733C@acuson.com> <20011102000921.J54141-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> <20011102104858.A47349@jake.akitanet.co.uk>

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Paul Robinson wrote:

> If an on-line stores choose to spend 50k on some Actinic-spawned bastard of
> an e-commerce system, and they realise it will cost another 25k to get it to
> work with browsers other than IE, like Mozilla and Konqueror, but only 10%
> of the target market uses those browsers, should they spend the money?

You missed a number there. How much revenue does that 10% bring in? If
it's more than 25k then they will be foolish to deliberately turn then
away.

But deeper than that, I think the businessman doesn't even *know* that
he are missing 10% of his potential market. His webmaster might know,
but his webmaster doesn't know anything about business, and thinks 90%
is good enough.

David

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