Have you thought about what you can offer to SMB (small-medium businesses) For instance, you charge $3.99 for the iYFS iDevice app.
What could you offer for $20/month? Would you let a third party resell iYFS to the SMB market, as long as you are getting the standard yearly incident support rate from the reseller? On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 09:56:02PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Ted: > > Is OpenAFS available unsupported? Sure, download the code from > openafs.org and have a blast. > > Pricing for YFS 1.0 has not been finalized. It will not be available > for free. > > Jeffrey Altman > > > On 10/1/2012 9:12 PM, Ted Creedon wrote: > > Is it available unsupported? > > > > tedc > > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Jeffrey Altman > > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On 9/30/2012 4:33 PM, Aaron Knister wrote: > > > Regarding support, some type of subscription based model could go > > a long way. One if the reasons (other than frankly ignorance) that > > OpenAFS was frowned upon at UMBC was our lack of commercial support. > > I know there are entities that provide support but they seemed to > > require more effort than clicking a button, selecting my > > subscription type (X number of FileServers, Y number of "supported" > > clients, Z number of vldb servers, etc), and typing in a credit card > > number > > > > I have always received a significant amount of pushback for any pricing > > model that is based upon # of servers and especially # of clients. That > > is why the YFSI pricing model is based upon number a number of support > > incidents. It doesn't matter how many platforms you deploy or how many > > servers or number of clients, support is driven by how much support the > > organization requires and whether support is U.S. business hours monday > > to friday or 24/7/365. > > > > Support packages start at US$4995 per year. > > > > Jeffrey Altman > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
