Matt, > I think that it would be wise for Ipswitch to reevaluate > their approach to vulnerability patches. > ... > As a result, Ipswitch has lost goodwill, whereas if they had > provided the patch back then, they would have gained goodwill.
In my opinion Ipswitch has choosen to definitively leave and let die any version prior to 8.2 because they has discovered that Imail was installed many many times more often then it was bought. So - even if it was not desirable for Ipswitch - such a bug like the actual one now is a great opportunity to go with paying customers and let them without the possibility to activate the 8.2 version alone. For sure it would have some colateral damage, mainly because Ipswitch has made some decisions in the past (keywords: ICS & pricing) who has caused not only a few paying customers to wait a little bit and not pay another time for a SA. I've bought my SA around 11 months ago when Ipswitch has announced the offer for Imail2006. Unfortunately our 8.x is higly integrated in our hosting enviroment, many users does use certain functionality and when I asked some of them if they would or could switch with us to a new version (I showed them our 2006-demo installation) their answer was mainly "no". Along with still known and appearing problems our solution was to not to upgrade to 2006 at this time. Maybe it would be an idea to install a complete new server with 2006 and let it run for one year beside the old 8.22 one. Markus 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/
