I think your relating the enterprise market with expensive products. Large enterprises don't pick products because they are expensive. Exchange isn't this expensive. And it's a real enterprise product with a ship load more features and development than breeze will ever achieve.
It's expensive because they think they get away with it or test the water, and sure people will buy it, until laslo or similar produce a free version. As for any small companies who may want to use it, they have priced them out of it completely, so they obviously are not interested. Regards Dale Fraser > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Paul B > Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2006 5:26 PM > To: cfaussie > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: OT: Macromedia Pricing > > > There is a few Fortune 500 companies in this list of Breeze users: > http://www.macromedia.com/software/breeze/customers/list.html > > Breeze is marketed towards the Enterprise market and it's doing well.. > it's a stable product over a large number of connections, the ability > to add custom "pods" to the interface is useful and the future benefits > of integrating well with Flex, all justify the investment for the > larger company. Have a look at the HP Vision for Next Generation > Communications http://www.macromedia.com/resources/telecom/hp_demo/. > > While Flex 2.0 will be dramatically less of an investment to the > general market, it's important that Adobe keep focusing on the > Enterprise market because the revenue allows them to keep funding R&D > that leads to such great products. > > Eventually after these products start recouping the investment spent on > them, Adobe can start dropping the prices and making them more > available to the average business, the cost of developing Breeze n Flex > couldn't have been too cheap. > > We'll all experience the rewards of this when Flex 2.0 launches = ) > >
