> hmm, not for ipswitch. but it is for lyris and lsoft and mailsite. I was talking about the selling power to the software developer. WM/WC have brought a lot more press and customer attention than IMAILSRV, and no, I don't think that a whizbang IMAILSRV would have done the same thing!
> I think these two areas swamps for mail admins. Not my point--they're great cost justifiers, even if they turn out to be support swamps. And it all depends on how well you meter and control growth (as you'll see below, I agree that WM/WC are insane as loss leaders). > The amount of support, bugs, troubles, mime, attachments, > templates, browsers, huge mailboxes, huge increase in CPU+RAM for > webmail, general like of scaleability, and then ice that cake (or > put a dense fog on that swamp) with users interfacing to the whole > mess, and you've added a ton of extra work+costs vs pop access. Again, I'm not talking about webmail as a revenue generator--that is, I agree, insane. I'm talking about the SMB market, for whom it is a justifiable hook and for whom, especially with recent stability enhancements, it is a Good Buy. > and somebody here wanted to charge users for POP service! Pay them to use > POP rather than webmail. :)) I agree completely. > Notice that the big outfits use free webmail as a "traffic builder". > I'd really like to see the costs for hotmail and yahoo freemail > operations vs how much revenue can be attributed to them. I bet they > are all losing money, big time. and wish TH they could get out from > under it. I bet MS doesn't lose any sleep (not to say the expense isn't beyond what they'd hoped), since Hotmail has made MS indispensable to a much larger group of slaves than they had before. You're probably right about Yahoo!. -Sandy -Sandy > Len > 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/ 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/
