RE: [IMail Forum] Upcoming Pricing.

[John T \(Lists\)]

Ouch, now you touched a thorn in my side.   I truly and firmly believe that the state of IT and host provider services has degraded do to the extreme easy access so many have to software. Example, every Tom, Dick and Harry and every Smith Company, Jones INC and HostingRUS.whatever.whereever can get a hold of an Exchange server CD and key, install it, pay for $39.95 DSL service and host e-mail. The software vendors did not / have not introduced checks and balances to keep these Johnny-come-latelys from doing things they neither have the legal right nor the knowledge of what they are doing.   Maybe my lower level prices need to be adjusted, I do not know. But the higher levels should stay. With my proposal for clustering, if an ISP needs to have 5 Imail servers to handle the load and fail over, they will have to pay for the initial licenses, but then the one unlimited SA would cover all. I think that is fair and reasonable.   John T eServices For You   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:19 PM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Upcoming Pricing.    John, You are vastly underpricing the smaller levels at which you claim to be, and overpricing the higher levels.  One thing that you share bare in mind about those that have unlimited licenses is that these are often owned by ISP's and hosting providers.  These companies have over the past half decade experienced severe pricing pressures and rapidly shrinking markets while also having the problem of spam and viruses dumped on their lap requiring significant additional expense and huge investments in time.  It doesn't make much sense to be charging such companies more, especially when other companies are offering mostly comparable products for a small fraction of the price of IMail, and open source continues to gain ground.