A Statement from the Response Point VAR Council
The Microsoft Response Point VAR Council is a group of Partners that were invited early on in the development cycle of Response Point to collectively and periodically meet with the Microsoft management and team to give feedback and direction on Response Point from a Partner’s perspective.
This group held a conference call to discuss the announcements surrounding Response Point and determine how we could help Microsoft, the Partner Community and the Customer community in support of the product. The consensus was that while concerned on the lack of detailed information about the product roadmap, we partners would and should continue to support, sell and market the product and we would continue express our ongoing concern and support to Microsoft.
John Frederiksen, the GM of Response Point, had offered to join the call but had a conflict. We were however joined briefly by X.D. Huang, the original GM of Response Point and John’s direct manager. X.D. assured us that:
1) Microsoft will continue to support partners and customers running all current 1.x versions of Response Point;
2) Microsoft is NOT shutting down Response Point, and does have non-mgt personnel assigned to the product;
3) Microsoft is currently discussing what to do as far as Release 2 of Response Point
4) Microsoft plans to release more information about the future direction of Response Point soon, perhaps in one or two weeks
5) The best way we as partners can help the Response Point team is to continue to SELL the product.
The VAR Council was encouraged by the call; and while some of us have reservations, we as a group will continue to market and sell Response Point and we encourage and urge others to do so as well. We look forward to the upcoming Microsoft announcement on the direction for Release 2 of Response Point.
My findings regarding Response Point 2.0 were somewhat more positive than what the VAR council have advised. More here:
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/paulspain/6520
If the project is dropped the API should be opened to end users, alternate supported OS and or third party add on’s. This could allow growth in the sales of Hardware and relieve MS from some of the SW support.
Hello,
Whats going my friends? Are we contiuning selling this product or not?
Regards,
Tommy Havens
I have noticed that all blogs and comments on Response Point died May 2009. So we decided Q3 of 2009 not to push sales of the units until someone says something. I for one am very tired of the RP Assistant crashing every bunch of minutes. We need updates new version, I don’t care just to see some movement would be great.
We have sold a number of systems and they are working well in the field.
Microsoft is years ahead of its competition.
We are looking Microsoft to provide a platform to build on.
Please continue with a Robust product.
If not, release RP to the community so, we can all move forward with the spirit of RP.
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