Results of poll "Capacity of eComStation market"

Imagine that 100 shareware/commercial applications are developed during the year. How much money are you ready to invest in new usefull applications for eComStation?

What is the purpose of this poll? It allow see:

• You can see how users value the software
• You can see how much euro users assigned for OS/2 in their pockets
• More optimistic users (those which are ready invest much miney) push other to invest more
• Those, who never purchase applications, can see that other users do this

Some conclusions:

• The major part of users is ready invest into software for eComStation
• 3/4 of users are ready invest 50 .. 300 EURO. (Let's accept that small shareware application costs 15 EURO, expensive - 50 EURO, as you can see users are ready purchase 3 .. 20 cheap applications or 1 .. 6 large expensive shareware-applications)
• What do users need? Usually they need native software, not Odin. Users need: ICQ, Accounting software, graphical editors, drivers, multimedia players, software for syncronization with mobile devices.

This poll covers shareware only. Users spend more money to eComStation software because update subscriptions, sponsor to open-source projects.