There were a bunch of comments on my two post about blackpoint (Exciting news being released on Monday morning from K2, Announcing K2 blackpoint). So I figured I would bubble them up into a full post Q & A style. There is also some extra information on devK2.net here:

• More on K2 blackpoint (links to other "announcement" posts)
• The ‘point’ of origin (great post for more information on the product and competitors)

Will partners sell this?
It seems at the low price point, K2 will sell direct?
Cheers,
Jamie

We see that the majority of Blackpoint sales will be driven though our partners. Our strategy is a partner focussed one and that will definitely not change for Blackpoint.
Dave (VP Alliances - K2)

Dave Marcus

Nice!
It's going to be great to create K2 solutions without having customers fork out big fees...
Is this instead of Black Pearl for SharePoint?
Cliff

Yes, the price is very nice. Remember that blackpoint is focus on creating workflows from SharePoint. You could create them by hand but blackpoint lets no technical users create workflows. You can always upgrade from blackpoint to blackpearl.

Edgardo

Does blackpoint use Silver light 1.0 or 2.0?

jp

There will be a web designer that will be written if I am not mistaken on silverlight 2.0. I have seen early builds of it and is pretty awesome. You will when be able to pull the workflow into any of the designers you might have.

Edgardo

Whats the difference between this and the Beta 2 BlackPoint released last year?
Confused?

Jackie

Hi Jackie,
There was no beta 2 blackpoint ...you were probably referring to K2[blackpearl] which is an RTM product and is been in the market since August 2007.

jey

Great..you can add Microsoft also in the bad face list..nintex will also have a problem..but people like Skelta, Agilepoint and captaris are not even competing in that space as they focus more on enterprise customers...and i'm very sure that they don't want to be in that space because Sharepoint already provides what Nintex and Blackpoint claim to do on MOSS.

Point Blank

K2 does compete on an enterprise level. blackpearl is meant to compete with those products. Here is a great post on product differences devk2.wordpress.com/.../

Edgardo