It's seems to be a business model based on "greed" rather than trying
to produce such a great product that they make more money due to
higher volumes of sales. iMail's a great product as evidenced by us
all being here. But the value is not justified at whacky prices that
are not inline with the competition. I bought SmarterMail though only
use it for a backup to send non local email tests and also just in
case I need to migrate to another program. It's a very bad sign that
so many of us are looking at the competition.
The bottom-line as I see it is that it's 10 times harder to get a new
client than keep a current one. If people shopping for an email
server can not find parity in price to feature list in iMail ipswitch
will eventually fail. It is far simpler to focus on quality, price at
a more fair pricing model and make the big bucks because you've done
good work and outsell the competition on such merit. Just raising the
prices will come back to bite you in the butt and you could loose
everything.
Not pleased to hear that ipswitch changed their Collaboration effort
at striking it rich to just raising the price on SAs... It looks like
their business model is putting them in a very dangerous long term
position.
On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:37 AM, William Van Hefner wrote:
This is odd... I responded to Bill privately, and he quoted me
pricing on
the new SA. I guess that I can understand why he doesn't want to
post the
prices on this list though. It would just touch off a new firestorm of
criticism, and rightfully so.
I won't disclose the pricing that he revealed to me privately for the
unlimited SA. Let's just say that those of you who were insulted by
Ipswitch's price gouging on ICS will be similarly insulted by the
skyrocket
price of the new Imail unlimited SA. If you hurry, you can still
get the
unlimited SA for the bargain price of $695. Trust me, it's a mere
pittance
compared to the new 2006 SA prices. Too bad, they almost had me
back for a
minute. I don't envy Bill's job one bit. I could build TWO new
Linux servers
for what Ipswitch wants for a single SA.
Regards,
Steve Guluk
SGDesign
(949) 661-9333
ICQ: 7230769
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