I can tell you at $1450 a year for my Declude for Imail, isn't going to fly
very well here.
Ironically, one of the reasons I chose Declude in the beginning was the
lower maintenance cost.
The upfront cost was higher than the alternatives, but the ongoing price was
very affordable.
I belive the product was the best product for Imail integration at the time
I purchaed it.
I also have to say that the lack of the product's advancement has irritated
me.
Yes there was the change to a service, and yes SmarterMail support was
implemented.
But the base product has not not improved in virus/vulnerability detection
or spam detection in a year.
I think that change was the addition of the dynhelo internal test. And I
don't use that test because run a third party test that is more effective.
Looking at the release logs, the last substantial virus/vulnerability
detection or spam additions were in September 2004 with version 1.80.
If the price is going up that much, I really expect the program to be
getting better.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Che Vilnonis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <Declude.JunkMail@declude.com>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:54 AM
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] declude 4 changes ... worried...
I agree. I just emailed to see what the upgrade price would be for just
Junkmail... and I'm not sure that is even possible to purchase it alone.
Sounds like Declude has been following Ipswitch's model for
bundling/pricing
software.
~Ché
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Fisher
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:43 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] declude 4 changes ... worried...
So I thought I'd go web browsing on the Declude site and see what is up
with
Declude 4.
I'm a Virus Pro and Junkmail Pro licensee on Imail.
Going forward Declude 4 is the entire suite (Virus Pro, Junkmail Pro and
Hijaak).
Kevin's post mentions that Declude 3 will be supported. Although long term
how long will they support two different code sets?
I'd say my long-term gut feeling isn't good.
Next I look through the purchase page. Declude 4 for Imail is now only
available for a $1450 Annual Subscription. Ouch.
The last time I paid maintenance for Declude it was $265. That's a bump.
(Essentially having only one domain here), That is mighty pricey
especially
compared to the Declude for Smartmail 1 domain price of $199.
Don't get me wrong, I really like the Declude prodcut. It's so flexible
that
you can do many different things...
I just can't see how smaller entities like me are going to positively
affected by these changes.
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Director of IT
Farm Progress Companies
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