Sorry for leaving out the description and the price, those are key ingredients 8-)
Also, if I happen to find more than the magic 500, I would probably also try to convince them to offer a reduced price for the OSX version in consideration of the fact that they wouldn't be offering support for the parent Evolution product on the same platform. But for now, I'm assumnig it will be the same price. -Avram > On Tue, 14 May 2002, Erik Price wrote: > >> On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 11:02 AM, Avram Dorfman wrote: >> >> > Ok, I want to go for it. I spoke to Jocelyn at Ximian, and asked her >> > flat out - how many product sales would have to be in it for you >> > guys to decide to develop the connector for OS X. She said 500. >> >> What does that equate in financial terms? Or how much does a Ximian >> product cost? > > Most of them are Free [as in beer, as in speech]: they're the company > behind Gnome. Connector is their [only?] non-Free product, and they > seem to be hoping that sales of it will be able to keep them afloat. It > looks like single user licenses for Linux are $69 (USD), ten user > licenses are $599, and twenty-five user licenses are $1449. To see > their catalog, see the main page: https://store.ximian.com/index.php > > While I'm at it, see http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/ for a > description of the product. Basically, it allows Evolution (MS-Outlook > workalike) to interact with MS-Exchange 2000 servers, and that's about > it. > > I love the idea of pushing for an OSX/X11 version [OSX/Aqua would be > even better, but you've got to start somewhere], but I personally have > no need for it: I don't connect to Exchange for personal or business > use, so I couldn't use Connector if I wanted to. That notwithstanding, > I still think there are a lot of people that would want this, and would > pay for it. I'm a little nervous about affiliating Fink with this > effort -- I see good & bad angles there -- but either way I'd like to > see it happen, and would be willing to help promote the idea. > > > -- > Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ > > "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
