Agreed. It's a large part of why so many seek open source alternatives.

Kurt

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 04:44, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote:

> I must say, that I am increasingly annoyed by vendors that try to make
> more money on the concept of "value derived by the customer" that is not in
> any way tied to costs of goods or services to the vendor.
>
> Like the whole, "if your product is running on 4 processors, it costs more
> than if it is running on 2".   Maybe.  But is sure doesn't cost the vendor
> 2x -- not even for support.
>
> At that point it just becomes greed, and pushes people more and more to
> alternative solutions.
>
> Licenses per system monitored? Fine.
> Licenses per user managed?  Fine, for the most part.
> Licenses for messages sent per unit of time?  We need to talk.  I see much
> potential for unreasonableness.
>
> There are very few elements of the application that are different because
> a particular customer is sending 200K messages, and in most cases, the
> support for this is in a license file, rather than an entirely separate
> piece of code, which means they they are inherently supporting that code
> all the time in the first place.
>
> As consumers (corporate or personal), we need to stop supporting such
> stupid and greedy business models...
>
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> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Greg Olson <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I think that’s tied to the different licenses they sell. Platinum is
>> 10,000 msgs per hour, Platinum Plus 100,00mgs per hour, then then there two
>> more higher at 200k and 300k per hour.
>> Though you'd need some big pipes after the Platinum Plus.
>> -Greg
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Donald Bittenbender [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:09 PM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: RE: List response time is abysmal
>>
>> When we performed our most recent upgrade we noticed that Lyris now has
>> an "SMTP Send Limit" and it will not send more than xx messages over xx
>> amount of time. This gets worse the faster people post to the list with xx
>> hours.
>>
>> Unfortunately there isn't anything we can do about it at the moment, but
>> coded into Lyris itself.
>>
>>
>> Donald Bittenbender
>> Software Developer
>> GFI Software – www.gfi.com
>> Tel.: +1 866 389 5597 ext 6065    Mob.: +1 727 748 2708
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:38 PM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: List response time is abysmal
>>
>> I know others have mentioned it, but it's really noticeable...
>>
>> I'm talking *hours* between when I send in an email and when I see it
>> back in my inbox.
>>
>> More RAM, faster disks, fatter pipe?
>>
>> I won't say it's unusable, but it's getting less comfortable.
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>>
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