In reply to David Anderson.

Vladimir from ManageWP here. As unfair as it may seem at first, these are the rules of the game that each of us building business based on WordPress have accepted when we started. The same goes for when you are building an iOS or Facebok app - these are the business risks you take. So I do not have any bad feelings or anything, and I welcome the effort by Automattic.

If anything, it will spread awareness and help educate people about this market, which at the end should benefit us. I think that our product is way more feature rich and mature and we are couple of years ahead with experience and development. It is also our core business, which means we are able to move at a much quicker pace with innovation.

While I am not ignorant to the fact that we are getting none other but Automattic to compete with, I also believe in my team, our loyal customers trusting our brand and know that the best is yet to come (hint: expect something amazing from ManageWP coming in January). There is also a tiny bit of odd excitment for the opportunity to go against someone as big and dominant.