Re: [IMail Forum] Web Messaging... Coming Soon, Real Soon...

[Matrosity Hosting]

Ok, now I am concerned. We're only going to bend over so many times before we say enough is enough. I don't think you should be charging more for "maintenance" than some mail servers can be bought outright for. Especially when they have the same or more features than Imail currently has. This will definitely drive off more customers. Unless that's the goal, I think it's a bad idea and the main reason why people don't renew it in the first place. Doing the math in my head I can see that hanging out for two years buys me an entirely new license with someone else with arguably better features. $.02 Bill Kevin Gillis wrote: Hi Don and William, Fair comments and can understand the concern. The pricing is going to be lower in some cases, higher in other, than the current $695. As before, Ipswitch-direct can not do discounts beyond the 10% for Education. However, our resellers will usually offer the best price as they have latitude to discount by 10, 20 even 30%. My direct sales folks may not like this but, for example, online today an IMail Professional SA can be purchased for under $500... http://ostg.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=1246664/ So hunting around, the new "street/actual" pricing for the bottom 3 tiers will be a lower than today's $695 and higher for the top 2 tiers. And it's quite alright to purchase the current IMail Pro SA for $695 (or see link above for better pricing) and you will receive all updates for 12 months at which time you would pay the new UNL price. We have a lot of new features coming in the IMail 2006 roadmap (not final but includes an overhauled web calendaring and scheduling, password rules including auto expiring passwords, graphical/statistical reporting (e.g. top senders/receivers by domain, reports/analysis on mailboxes, etc), archiving, etc.) and for those who are willing to give us a shot, the best approach, for those in the higher tiers, is to purchase an IMail Pro SA today for $695 and then you'll get the new updates coming next year. Again, not final, but we currently have at least 2 updates scheduled for 2006. >From the product manager perspective, if the market can't bear the new pricing, it makes perfect business sense for us to revisit! bye for now, kg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Don Brown Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:09 AM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Web Messaging... Coming Soon, Real Soon... I smell a price increase for current "Unlimited" Imail customers in Kevin's post, quoted below. We just had an price increase as a result of the ICS fiasco which ran off several Imail customers. I sure hope they don't step in it again and run more of us off to other alternatives. "Monday, October 31, 2005, 8:13:02 PM, Kevin Gillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also note that IMail Secure will be offered at 5 user levels, whereas today, it's only offered as Unlimited. Price points will be announced in a month (can't really disclose publicly until resellers have been notified) but the basic philosophy is to allow customers to more accurately pay for what they are using versus having all customer paying for unlimited users and domains." Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 7:24:38 AM, Matrosity Hosting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MH> I may have overlooked an email but if we have an active service MH> agreement then we should be entitled to whatever version of the software MH> we are licensed for. MH> Bill MH> Bruce Barnes wrote: Bill, I hope you are going to consider those of us who paid for, and have kept up our service agreements for, unlimited licenses when you create your new pricing structure! If Ipswitch causes those of us who have been long-time customers, with unlimited licensed versions, to fork over significantly more money to keep the unlimited licensing, that will cause a whole new set of problems for us and cause us to start re-thinking all of those other companies who's products we downloaded evaluation versions of and have continued to monitor during the last year and a half. Bruce Barnes ChicagoNetTech Inc Chicago IL To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ MH> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html MH> List Archive: MH> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ MH> Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ ---- Don Brown - Dallas, Texas USA Internet Concepts, Inc. 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