Very well put... I agree. Barry Chronister Director, Information Systems Waitt Media, Inc.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of imail Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 4:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail 7.1 upgrade costs: pragmatic reality disclaimer: We are currently covered by an active service contract and will probably continue to do so. The discussion about major/minor versions, fixes versus features, and when to charge or not, although I'm sure a very emotional issue to some, is never going to be solved. We've had these vendor/software issues for years and will continue to do so. Why does some software have per seat versus per CPU licensing? Why is product X more expensive when I run it on a faster processor? Anybody license mainframe software lately? It's even worse! The bottom line, I think is simple: If you want free software - use Linux/Unix et. al. and go the GPL freeware route. It's totally free, no ifs, ands, or buts. If you want commercial software and RELY on it for mission-critical operations, then budget to spend $XXX per year to keep refreshing it. I don't care whether it's called an upgrade fee, a maintenance fee, or a new feature release, the reality is commercial vendors must make money and if their product has value, I'm willing to pay for it and I know it's not a one-time thing if I want to grow with the software. I believe, overall, IMail is a great deal and will stay with it as long as it remains so. (Have you priced Exchange lately? Quite a bit more $$$$) Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
