On Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 01:27 AM, Steve Linford wrote: > > I don't want to get your hopes up but don't move away too quick... there > is an indication from Philip Slater on the CommuniGate Pro mailing list > that Stalker may look into a low-user pricing for CGP (suggestion was a > 10-user personal/home license for under $100). With a 10-user license you > can do quite a lot since like SIMS, CGP has unlimited domains, aliases, > forwarders, etc. Personally I think anyone needing more than 10 users > qualifies as a business, and for any business a CGP license ($499) is > good value for money. I also think that if Stalker introduced a 10-user > license for say $99 they'd get a big uptake from individuals, SOHOs and > startup businesses, most of which will grow into bigger businesses and > therefore need ever bigger licenses. So hold on a few weeks and see what > happens. > >
This would definitely be a step in the right direction, and I'd purchase a license like this IMMEDIATELY. Where do I send my credit card info??? Please!!! However, as wonderful as this would be, and acknowledging that it may for reasons I don't know or understand be the only practical solution for Stalker, what would be ideal for my needs would be simply SIMS for OS X. Same feature set, none of the fancy whizbangs that Communigate Pro adds beyond this like list management, web mail etc. Heck, I don't even want IMAP. What we do need is lots of accounts. We have commercial clients, who generally have 1 or 2 accounts and we would gladly move these to CGate pro given a smaller license than the current one. The 10 user licences would definitely cover this. Most of our email users are from nonprofit organizations though, who don't have the money to pay us for much more than the bandwidth they use. We've got one non-profit with 80 email accounts, which they need. They don't need a lot of bells and whistles though and the cost of going to CGate Pro is currently just too high for these clients. I could probably run SIMS indefinitely but worry that some as yet undiscovered bug in SIMS or OS 9 might go unfixed in the future, leaving us in a state of disaster. It'd be much nicer to be able to upgrade everything. I realize that my needs here may well be contrary to Stalker's needs but, wouldn't it just be a wonderful world if there was a middle ground that would make everyone happy. Tom Wiebe The Image Foundation http://www.imagefoundation.com/ (604) 688-3124 ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
