[REBOL] Re: CURL -- similar idea to REBOL?
From: brian:hawley at: 8-Aug-2001 13:07
At 08:29 PM 8/7/01 -0400, [assembly--ns1--whiterose--net] wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:32:19PM -0700, Ryan Cole wrote:
> > I agree, CURL focuses mostly on display. I found the language itself
> > unappealing, compared to REBOL anyways. I hope them success, but
> > unfortuneately I think they will go bankrupt--just a suspicion. It
> > seems to me that they would have a high cash "burn rate," not good in
> > times like these.
>
>I could see them having a high burn rate especially since recently they
>had received 40m in VC. Which almost seems unprecidented for this type of
>company. Its quite mind boggling actually.
Have you checked out their business model? If they actually
get away with it, it's a money machine. They charge by the
traffic, by _your_ traffic. All they have to do is get a
high-traffic web site as a customer, just one, and they'll
make back that money easily.
Brian Hawley
Silly question: Is your email name related to the band?
