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.
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Sent: Thursday,
November 10, 2005 12:19
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Subject: Re: [IMail
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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.
