Re: Rexsel — A simpler way of writing XSLT

> I started with OmniMark (and SGML, but that is another story) before XSLT
arrived and used that for some years finally going over to XSLT. Main reason
being the cost of the former after they withdrew a free version. Irritating
because OmniMark could process free text, not just tagged text such as XML.
>

My only contact with Omnimark was that (around 1997 perhaps?) it looked like
just the thing we needed for a project, so I made inquiries, and they sent
over a sales rep, and quoted me a price that was about 50% of the entire
project budget (about B#250K if I remember). I responded saying "some mistake
surely?" and they never got back.

That sort of pricing model for software was commonplace in the mainframe era,
but they failed to recognize that the world had moved on. The very fact that
they were prepared to send a sales person to visit a prospect before
qualifying the deal indicated that they had the wrong cost model.

Michael Kay
Saxonica