An Intro
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Hi. I'm Michael Wray. I'm the President of Mariner Software. Thanks for reading. A while ago, one of our customers recommended I write a blog and share some of the inner workings of a software company, specifically ours. My first reaction, I recall, was why would anyone share pseudo-confidential details in this fairly competititve industry? I wouldn't. In this risk/reward kind of world, I didn't see any benefit. Count me out.
Fast forward several months...
I caved. Call it peer pressure. :-) The reality is that this blog gives me a good venue to give you a unique perpective of an industry that, at times, can be pretty exciting. And who knows, maybe a few of you will find it interesting! I'll even get some of the other folks here to put in their two cents every once in awhile.
Therefore, starting today, once a week or so, I will share some of the more intriguing nuggets of our company and my perspective on certain snippets of the software industry. I obviously won't give away any of our corporate secrets but I will try to make this blog worth keeping up with.
Talk to you soon.
Mike
Fast forward several months...
I caved. Call it peer pressure. :-) The reality is that this blog gives me a good venue to give you a unique perpective of an industry that, at times, can be pretty exciting. And who knows, maybe a few of you will find it interesting! I'll even get some of the other folks here to put in their two cents every once in awhile.
Therefore, starting today, once a week or so, I will share some of the more intriguing nuggets of our company and my perspective on certain snippets of the software industry. I obviously won't give away any of our corporate secrets but I will try to make this blog worth keeping up with.
Talk to you soon.
Mike
Social Bookmark: 
posted by
Michael Wray
at
12:30 PM
5 Comments:
Thanks Mike. We should be addiing our next post sometime this week.
Mike
Hi Mike, do you remember me? I look forward to your blog!!
I once spent an entire weekend testing Mac Writing Software, from MS Word to AbiWord, to Neo Office, to Papyrus to Nisus to Mariner Write.
Then, I read about Rich Text Format, which can communicate with any processing program.
Of all the processors out there, this is the most-intuitive software, I've ever put to use.
I don't need all of the bloat of MS Word, as RTF & TXT get it done. & The ease of converting a document into PDF is done the best on this program.
This program was made for the writer in mind & not for some Highly Paid IT Person.
It lets me get work done, in far-less time.
Keep up the great work. Thanks!
Hi Kenichi - Thanks for the note. Yes, I do remember you. Nice to hear from you.
Hi Michael- Thanks for the kind words. The explanation in your reply is exactly how we feel. Write will never be MS Word. We don't have the resources or the inclination to build in a ton of enterprise/power user kind of features. The niche Write serves today is the same one we served 10 years ago when we first introduced it. We have seen a ton of Mac word processors come and go (MacWrite, WriteNow, FullWrite, WordPerfect, ect;), but Mariner Write has forged an incredibly loyal customer base of thousands of users.
We appreciate the support!
Mike
Hi Jim-
Thanks for the great blog ideas! I can answer your first question right here...what does it take to start up a software start up (although we aren't really a start up)?
Kahunas. It definitely isn't for the faint of heart.
The "open source" question is an complex one.
It would be tough to replicate the momentum of a Firefox or OpenOffice and I'm not sure of the value it would return but it definitely is an interesting idea.
Pics are coming. I'm waiting for an eve where I can take a pic of the view of the downtown Minneapolis skyline we have here at the office. We'll get some Mariner mugs in there too.
And lastly, why didn't we name Mariner Write after a ship? Hmmm, not sure. before my time here. Anything but the "Titanic" would work for me. :-)
Thanks Jim!
Mike
Post a Comment
<< Home