You are entirely correct. However, I (personally) feel that by pricing it so
high you're targeting a very small niche market at a higher rate. Pricing it
in the "$300.00" range would not cost you that niche - but it would gain you
the "x-million" users/freelance developers. Sure, $6,000 is 20x $300, but
it's ONLY x20. When you're talking about a userbase on the 'net, x20 is
NOTHING. "Go big and expensive" seems the "old way" and "go small and
dominate the market" seems the new...um, paradigm. (Yes, I just wanted
to say that word. For all it's overuse, I think it just looks neat.)
If it's available, what is Zend's sales projection for this thing?
And has Zend acknowledged the possibility that by pricing it
so high they're ENCOURAGING competition/extensions from
the Open crowd? Price it lower and people who would otherwise
balk and write their own would just buy it. Like me. I don't have a viable
use for it atm, but the possibility's there. So what're my options?
Pay you 6k, or code one? Encoding modules aren't rocket science,
but I'd have to learn the Zend plugin/module API. Company 1 wants it,
pays 3k for a coder, and then releases it. *blink* Now Company 1 has
saved/invested 3k, and the Open community has the tool. Maybe Company1
charges $50.00 for it to recover costs. Now the vaunted Zend Encoder's
trying to compete and is still priced at $6,000. Sure, you may get a few
sales before someone drops a replacement but you'd get a whole lot more
by lowering the price, claiming market share and then you'd be better
positioned when the (obviously in the works) Open community spits one
out.
Just some thoughts....
-Szii
At 12:09 PM 1/25/2001 -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> But I do know that for $6,000 I sure as hell am not buying it.
>> Maybe for a couple hundred...but $6,000? No way. I'd have to have
>> some seriously proprietary kickass scripts that cost me a huge investment
>> in time/money to develop to blow $6,000 just on keeping people from
>> copying/tweaking them. Even then, they're just scripts. It'd be nice for
>> some encapsulated functionality, say, for database access, but
>> still, for $6,000 + runtime client? Nah, PHP code's just not that complex
>> and for $6,000 I can set up a number of unique users in the database.
>>
>> -Szii
>>
>
>Well, without the Encoder the entire *possibility* of "seriously proprietary
>kickass scripts" that people distribute and sell is out of the question.
>Who said it was for the small developer? For them, there's the
>Commercial Subscription plan. The Encoder is for companies whose
>business is selling such PHP apps (among other good solutions
>as well).
>
>And the Encoder allows for better separation of business and
>presentation logic... hell, you could even implement a sort
>of business logic PHP "servlet".
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