RE: [IMail Forum] Marketing vs. Ethics

[Steinar Rasch]

Someone should really buy out the existing owners, put in some extra cash to get some more (needed) features and develop for instance a WebMail GUI like the one for SmarterTools (http://www.smartertools.com/Products/SmarterMail/Demo.aspx).   Keeping the originally pricing structure, then it would be a good business.   Let us all chip in... and make Mr. Perry zeBoss   :-) steinar     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27. oktober 2004 10:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] Marketing vs. Ethics Try to look at it with Ipswitch's eyes:   Ipswitch drops 90% of us existing customers, hoping that 10% of us will  upgrade. With the price multiplied by factor ten, they will have the same  revenue with much less customers, thereby massively reducing support.   Targetting a different market with ICS (the MS Exchange segment), the existing IMail customers are nothing but a hassle to maintain.   Our deep product loyality is reflected pretty well by the emotional reactions on this list. Unfortunately, there is no ethics for hardline salesmen.   While I doubt that Ipswitch has a chance in the MS Exchange market segment, they seem confident that it might work. However, they might overlook that their reputation suffers badly from the dropped user base.   Marius [EMAIL PROTECTED]