But, your basis is "if come" and irrelevant. The clustering proposal is just a proposal and has nothing to do with the current product or its pricing.
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 3:54:14 PM, John T (Lists) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> Ouch, now you touched a thorn in my side. JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> I truly and firmly believe that the state of IT and host JTL> provider services has degraded do to the extreme easy access so JTL> many have to software. Example, every Tom, Dick and Harry and JTL> every Smith Company, Jones INC and HostingRUS.whatever.whereever JTL> can get a hold of an Exchange server CD and key, install it, pay JTL> for $39.95 DSL service and host e-mail. The software vendors did JTL> not / have not introduced checks and balances to keep these JTL> Johnny-come-latelys from doing things they neither have the legal JTL> right nor the knowledge of what they are doing. JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> Maybe my lower level prices need to be adjusted, I do not know. JTL> But the higher levels should stay. With my proposal for JTL> clustering, if an ISP needs to have 5 Imail servers to handle the JTL> load and fail over, they will have to pay for the initial JTL> licenses, but then the one unlimited SA would cover all. I think that is fair and reasonable. JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> John T JTL> JTL> eServices For You JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> -----Original Message----- JTL> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JTL> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt JTL> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:19 PM JTL> To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com JTL> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Upcoming Pricing. JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> John, JTL> JTL> You are vastly underpricing the smaller levels at which you JTL> claim to be, and overpricing the higher levels. One thing that JTL> you share bare in mind about those that have unlimited licenses JTL> is that these are often owned by ISP's and hosting providers. JTL> These companies have over the past half decade experienced severe JTL> pricing pressures and rapidly shrinking markets while also having JTL> the problem of spam and viruses dumped on their lap requiring JTL> significant additional expense and huge investments in time. It JTL> doesn't make much sense to be charging such companies more, JTL> especially when other companies are offering mostly comparable JTL> products for a small fraction of the price of IMail, and open JTL> source continues to gain ground. JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> JTL> ---- Don Brown - Dallas, Texas USA Internet Concepts, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetconcepts.net (972) 788-2364 Fax: (972) 788-5049 ---- To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
