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I agree,
Presentation is king and nothing more so than a web site. I am now a full-time developer however I was previously moon lighting as a deisgner stroke web developer.
To me having a well constructing (not necessarily flashy) web site that presents the companies idea's is key in this day and age, one of the very first things I ask any client is "do you have a web site?".
The web site is no different to a business card, regardless of how good your product is if the market cannot gain visibility of you as a company your product will not sell. When I was working as a web design consultant my company web site promoted me, I feel at least, very well in that many customers assumed they were dealing with a much larger company - hence I was able to win over the more lucrative contracts.
It's unfortunate however we live in a web age, if I was presented with an ill concieved web site I would not consider the company or their products. Saying a web site is not required is no different to the nay sayers who believed the internet was a fad.
Adios,
Fz
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I know many good products that do not have good websites.
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Gautam Jain wrote: I know many good products that do not have good websites.
...even many more that do not have websites at all.
Developer Fantasies
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Depends on the type of product of coarse.
If it's a web design tool and the home page has 200 animated gifs and uses 25 point bright pink font, you may not take their product too seriously
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I wonder what their potential might be if they had a site (or one that was well done) that reflected how good you see you the product/company to be?
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May be true for legacy products and restricted to particular regions alone. But how would they have a global reach?
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yes, well, better NO website than a BAD website... 
V.
No hurries, no worries
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Gautam Jain wrote: I know many good products that do not have good websites.
I don't. None that I would spend money on at least. Also, I do find it hard to believe a company that cares about its products so much would not give a flip about their public website.
OSS is a bit different because there are usually less resources, but I don't see a good reason outside of laziness for an established company to not have a good website.
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