Well I'm talking about selling just the core ARS as a *development* system, not one of their turnkey apps.
I think it would be awesome if you could just buy the ARS with unlimited licenses for $500-$1000 (without support, of course) like you can for other development suites. -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of patrick zandi Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 9:54 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Thoughts on Core ARS Licensing ** I have had discussions with VP's at Remedy --- When it was Remedy on this.. But it was a no go... My Idea was just a little different.. in the sense that they release a Free version once.. of their Helpdesk solution.. it was called Helpdesk Express.. you just had to buy Remedy server and licenses.. Which I thought was a Great Idea.. It for some reason never took off.. Then I recommended and upgrade - slight to helpdesk express for ARS 5.x or 6.x -- no app fee, but a license key if you have support - 1 year at a time -- kind of a Lease program... They never did that either.... I have made suggestions like this in the past.. They have their reasons.. On 9/21/07, Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** I apologize if you've already read this in another thread. I put this in a response to the ongoing IBM MRO thread but then realized that it's a bit off that subject and I was hoping others would pass their thoughts on the topic. I figured a lot of listers wouldn't see my response since it was in the IBM MRO thread, so I'm starting this new one. Sorry for "doubling." Anyway, here's the idea: I would like to see Remedy lower the price on the AR System and the ARS user licenses. They could do a full push of ARS as a "Lego" development system--we give you the blocks, you put them together. By lowering the price of the ARS, the ARS platform would be more viable as a solution for the types of tracking apps Bing is referring to. The ARS is just too expensive for many companies...especially when there are other development tools available for a much, much lower price--with the Visual Studio on top of the pack. BMC could still charge whatever it wants for the ITSM suite and licenses. ARS would then be viable in all sorts of settings and us "ground up" developers would not necessarily be in direct competition with BMC. BMC then could make up the difference in volume and sell tech support packages separately. Could you imagine an ARS priced comparably to Visual Studio?! ARS would become a major development platform. Everyone would benefit. BMC would increase sales, companies would get a true rapid app development system, and us "old timer" developers would be in big demand as DEVELOPERS and not as CONFIGURERS. Thoughts? Norm __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ -- Patrick Zandi __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
