Benoit Hediard wrote:

> I don't see the point of this licensing change.

I do. The only reasonable explaination is that Flex is selling as fast 
as lightning! Hire a team of M$ WebProgrammers for a few months and look 
at the BILLS...  You will run to MM and buy Flex!

MJ

>
> With the old licensing:
> Business case A- people requiring a 2CPU license could buy it for $12 000,
> Business case B- people requiring a 4CPU licence could buy it for $24 000,
> Business case C- people requiring a 4CPU license + Gold support could 
> buy it
> for more than ~$29 000.
>
> Everybody were happy.
>
> With the new licensing:
> Business case A- not anymore...???
> Business case B- not anymore...???
> Business case C (starter kit???)- people requiring a 4CPU license + Gold
> support could buy it for $29 000 (no big change compared to old licensing)
>
> This new pricing looks really strange to me, I don't see any 
> improvement, it
> answers less business cases.
> The contrary would have been a much clever move:
> Business case D - people requiring a 1CPU license could buy it for $6 
> 000 (a
> real starter kit...).
>
> I suppose that Macromedia made some statistics/business plan before to
> confirm this new pricing (but it looks like they are going to loose so 
> many
> opportunities).
>
> Flex was already very difficult to sell based on its old price.
>
> Strange... I don't understand...
>
> Ben
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Sjors Pals [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Envoy� : jeudi 31 mars 2005 16:18
> � : [email protected]
> Objet : Re: [flexcoders] Flex 1.5 price
>
>
> 4CPU? Why on earth would someone like to use that on precompiled stuff?
>
> Regards,
>
> Sjors Pals
>
>
> Michel Jansen wrote:
>
> > Matt Horn wrote:
> >
> > > >>An old dutch saying : Prices can only go down...  Laszo/BackBase
> > > time??
> > >
> > > Was this before or after the tulip craze? :)
> >
> > You can make a joke off this but i think that raising the price for
> > your licenses more than 100% is not the smartest thing to do!  It can
> > be actually cheaper for the 4 CPU License with Gold Support but i am
> > loosing a customer here ;-((
> >
> > Good luck...
> >
> > Michel
> >
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