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Wish the page had more specific technical details and less sales-speak

• mh- 13y ago
  +1 on that. and I hate having to submit a request for a salesperson to contact me so I can get more info on the product. my interest went from "oh wow I'd like to evaluate this tonight" to "blah. this is sure to be a grating email dialogue." edit: ..and even though I'd be willing to buy a small license now for evaluation purposes that seems to lead to the same sales trap.
  • mh- 13y ago
    I wanted to add that someone from NGINX contacted me first thing this morning with a refreshingly personable follow-up. So while I still object to forced-into-sales-inquiry funnels like we were discussing here.. I have to apologize for assuming they'd be bad at it. :)
• eksith 13y ago
  There's a datasheet http://nginx.com/media/cms_page_media/21/nginx_plus_datasheet.pdf http://nginx.com/media/cms_page_media/21/nginx_plus_datashee... But that's got more sales-speak sprinkled in with the technical details.
• mrweasel 13y ago
  At this point I don't think they're trying to appeal to the system administrator or developers. The page should be directed at the sales people, initially they customers will be people like me, who just want to give them money but needs to convince the business people that it's a good investment. We doing just fine with the current open source version, but I want to see nginx stick around and honestly their price is very reasonable. Even small companies can pay and help keep the nginx developers around. I understand peoples concerns, but it seems to be the only way for the nginx developers to do what they do best. Donations are clearly not working. It's only reasonable that they want to get a stable paycheck while helping the rest of us getting ours.