> Wangjammer5 wrote:
> > There are so many free solutions out there, the "bang for buck" has to be
> > HUGE to differentiate something like IDEA from free IDEs. Most of the
> I think it is. There's lightyears between IDEA and free IDEs.
I completely agree with that.
> > major commercial IDEs have an non-time limited free version for personal
> > use. IDEA doesn't, and that's probably why you're seeing lots of eval key
> > requests every 3 weeks.
> >
> Those free versions have certain features disabled. Which features
> would you be
> willing to do without in IDEA?
Well, none really. However at the current price level our small
development team simply cannot justify the expense � especially when you
can get a new eval key easily.
However, if it became impossible to get new eval keys, I am sure we
wouldn't all register at the current (even reduced $200) price.
It would be a sad day indeed for us to go back to another IDE. I
desperately want all of our team to have IDEA, but the current price is
(for us) prohibitive. I've sold software myself (end-user as well as
software components) and my experience has shown that lower prices yield
more customers, and eventually more income.
Just my suggestion. We're not all in large enterprises that will pay
$200-$400 per user.
Wouldn't a $50-$100 single user license with no support (but updates of
course) be a good plan? The main thing corporates want is support when
things go wrong... us corporate outcasts just have to put up and wait for
a public upgrade ;-)
I really believe in the long term the money made with a much lower price
would beat the income from the higher priced version, but hey maybe I'm
wrong. At least with a lower price you can tell people to forget their
volume discounts.
I realise I'm going against the grain here. I just thought I'd share my
real-world observations about this.
Heck, I recommended IDEA to my main client and they immediately bought
several licenses. I'm sure even they would have bought more licenses
(hehe one for me too) if the price was lower � and they are a large company.
Cheers
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