My wild guess is that the "brain trust" at Ipswitch decided they either needed to lower their prices or raise them.
I don't blame them for deciding to switch to a higher pricing / less customers business plan. I do blame them for what appears to be a horrid transition. They do have some time to do the right thing. I'm not holding my breath waiting. -Dan Rapaport, Cayuga Computers and IthacaDomains.com ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Sean Fahey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:50:46 -0500 >Yah, I was cracking a joke but I agree wholeheartedly - it's best to just >move on and get over it. I won't be buying or recommending their products in >the future. Since so many seem to feel the same way, I expect that will hurt >them far more than a lawsuit would. Nothing kills your business faster than >screwing with your existing (and up until recently) loyal customers. > >They'll spend a lot more money and resources recovering from lost business >and trying to find new suckers, er... I mean "valued customers". Their >reputation might be too dinged up now. They're not THAT big or deep - I >predict they'll get acquired within 2 years, or just go out with a whimper. > >It's not like there isn't a lot of low cost (and even free) alternatives >available. It's obvious to me that they're taking the "Look at us, we're >enterprise-capable, we're like Exchange!" approach because OSS and other >"value point" competitors are eating their lunch. > >I've been looking at ClarkConnect for awhile... http://www.clarkconnect.com >and like quite a bit about it. > >Sean > --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
