Gary Steiner wrote:
If there is anyone subscribed to this mailing list who is
not a service provider, please raise your hand.
Standing with both hands raised. We are a local government entity. AKA "Cheap"
We can't even afford to put a staff member on scraping the bottom of the barrel. ;)
As a side note, I am finding these types of conversations interesting. I'd vote
"no" for a separate list for Service Providers to converse on this issue.
Anything that affects pricing and Declude's future business model interests me.
As an outside observer, I can understand the outrage at the profit sharing issue but I
believe in the long run, the dollars will make the displeasure known. The majority will
not agree to that structure and not use this "add-in."
Thus Declude/Commtouch will not make money on it. I agree that Declude should focus
on making the product better (fixing) and making it's money that way rather than
spending time & resources forming some kind of business partnership with a new
(to Declude users) company. I like the Firefox strategy. Make a good program, allow
people to add things to it, find out what add-in most people like, integrate that
into the next version.
I use Imail as a negative example. They made they system a "suite" of stuff to justify a
huge pricing increase. We hat to quickly upgrade at the due to security concerns but never used
anything in the suite beyond the Imail server. People are moving over to SmarterMail. fProt and
Declude appear to be moving in that direction too. :( Most of us probably chose Imail, Declude,
fProt over their larger competitors because they were stripped down "get 'er done"
applications. What does it do and how well does it do it.
--
John Olden - Systems Administrator
Champaign Park District
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