> I agree with this. Ipswitch didn't release Imail Express so that you > or I could "sell" it to another company.
Your assumption (and others' as well) seems to be that IMail Express was licensed for installation only by in-house IT. Still others have implied that it had a time-limited license. I don't believe you have anything from Ipswitch backing up either of these contentions, and the anger at Jeffrey's original plan seems rather odd, given that he wanted to use tools that were at hand at the time of his proposals. A consultant proposing an installation that includes labor, but no software costs, is an utterly typical situation and does not amount to reselling the product--it's not reselling with open-source, and it's not reselling with (in this case) freeware. Don't tell me you've never downloaded free utilities while at a client site and charged the client for the time spent on installation/configuration! Now, that said, I doubt I'd have gone the distance as Jeffrey did and tried to negotiate anything with the vendor. It is the vendor's right to discontinue development or support--and, prior to built-in or add-on support agreements (i.e. prior to downloading Express and prior to purchasing maintenance), a consumer really has nothing to stand on. I'd lick my wounds, absorb what costs I could, and look for additional products as necessary. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange Addresses into IMail Aliases! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ 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/
