The VNCScan product has been doing excellent and I’m still excited after all of these years to make contact with so many customers all over the world.  It seems that everyone who uses my product has grown to rely upon it so heavily that they feel that they can’t function as an IT admin without it.  It’s extremely humbling to hear their stories and know that I’ve done something that has changed the lives of so many all over the world.

I have something in mind for the “next big thing” to come out of my Bozteck company and I’m preheating the oven as we speak.  This new product will make just as big of an impact on the consumer market as VNCScan has made over the past 10 years in the IT field.  In fact, it will be equally desirable to both industries!

I’m going to join a DotNet developer group in Ann Arbor (yes, there are still user groups in existence) so that I can network with other software developers.  I wrote VNCScan entirely by myself but this time, I’d like to find a programming and business partner because when it’s done, it’s going to be bigger than something that I can handle on my own.

So, I say all of this to say … I will still be in the background and not very web visible for a while besides this blog.  I need to commit to this new venture so that I can be first to market.

If there are any SEO people out there with some spare time and a generous heart, can you please look at the site and give me some pointers?

I wrote the initial version in Visual Basic 6. It was released as freeware for a couple of years until the development and distribution costs demanded that I charge something for it. I looked at competing products such as PC Anywhere and saw that they were charging for each managed computer. At about $30 per computer, the costs add up to thousands of dollars for a decent sized network.

I decided to stay as close to free as I could while still making enough money to stay afloat. The price that I settled upon was $30 US with unlimited managed hosts. I partnered with a friend and together we started hammering away at the product to make it valuable as a commercial VNC manager. In April of 2002, we launched our new website at vncscan.com and were opened for commercial business.

We named our company TGCS (Two Guys and a Compiler Software). I was the owner and master programmer while Philippe Green was my valued partner. In reality, he has always been a far greater programmer than I was. After a couple years of working together on the project, my partner decided to strike out on his own projects that allowed less time for work on VNCScan.

In 2003, I changed the company name to Bozteck and converted from VB 6 to the Microsoft .NET Framework. This move allowed me to start incorporating very powerful windows management features into the product, turning it into much more than just a VNC manager.

At this point, a couple newly emerging products started cropping up and introducing some real competition for my product for the first time. As they mimicked the features in VNCScan, I was compelled to keep raising the bar by innovating new features such as the ability to remotely reboot a computer into safe mode with VNC remote control support. This was never done before and took some creative tricks to make happen. It wasn’t long before a couple of the new competitors figured out how I did it and put it in their products.

This led me to include the ability to remotely execute stored scripts and a load of other Windows management functions. I was very proud to have a program that, with all of the combined features, was unique in existance. Sure, there were other programs that did bits and pieces of it, but nothing that did it all in one tool.

The most fulfilling thing about this, though, is knowing that my efforts have made the job easier for thousands of Network Administrators all over the world. There’s no feeling like knowing that somewhere on the other side of the planet, there’s someone using something that you wrote to easily solve a problem that would have otherwise been much more difficult

I’m currently looking to expand Bozteck’s product offering. I’ve written specialized software that is used on the set of huge TV shows and movies and will likely continue to offer products in that market. I’d like to center on the IT field, however, because that is where my center of experience lies. I think that I’m going to have to search for another partner to make this growth. Any good .NET programmers out there?

I’m excited with all of the possibilities for Bozteck’s future. As they say, the sky’s the limit.