Hi Chris, Don't forget, that ICS is a bundle of pieces. The base or the heart of everything is still IMail. I don't think, that ipswitch will publish IMail to the open source community. They throwing away their customers but not their code ;-)
============================================ Am Dienstag, 26. Oktober 2004 um 23:04 schrieben Sie: > I wonder if they will be interested in releasing the source code for IMail > Server on the Open Source Market. I'm sure that I speak for most of the > users on this list in saying that I'm ready to go back to the days of the > "20 minute e-mail solution". > Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 3:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Collaboration is now available :( >>I will wager that the entire management team and >> marketing department are reading every one of these >> posts in horror. > I'm sure they are reading them also, but I doubt it is in horror. That > would assume that Ipswitch didn't expect the kind of fallout that's now on > the list. I can imagine that they knew very well what would happen, but > wanted to take their business in a different direction. If that direction > was to go after larger enterprise customers, they may have felt they needed > to shed a few low-profitability customers in the process. They may feel > that they work too hard for the small support agreement renewals and would > prefer to work with fewer customers that generate much more income. I don't > think there are many other ways to read it, and I don't think it was > accidental. I seriously doubt we will see a reversal. > One recent event really caused me to wonder about Ipswitch's commitment to > smaller customers. I was told to call Ipswitch support regarding a ticket > that I had submitted by email. I did so -- at 4:45 pm -- and the support > person indignantly asked why I would call so close to quitting time. An > attitude like that is often a reflection of the culture rather than a > singular event. Of course, I could just have caught them on an off day, but > it took me by surprise. > The risk in Ipswitch's strategy is, as many have pointed out, is that they > are now going to go head-to-head with products that are much more > sophisticated, capable, and mature. Consider the IMail webmail "address > book" as an example -- would you want to try to sell an address book that > contains two fields to an enterprise client? I wouldn't. It will be > interesting to see if they can succeed. I wish them the best of luck, but I > won't be along for the ride. > There are exciting new developments over at Declude -- from people I do > trust. And if any of you are .NET developers, have a look at SmarterMail, > which comes with 34 SOAP modules to use for integrating with your > applications. It also includes built-in support for an alternate SMTP port, > which I can really use. I would love to hear evals from some of the more > experienced admins on this product. > Regards, > Bill > 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/ > 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/ ============================================ -- Mit freundlichen Gr�ssen -------------------------------------------- Merlin Consulting Martin Schaible Bahnhofstrasse 27 CH-8702 Zollikon Phone: +41 1 391 30 00 Fax: +41 1 391 32 49 Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.merlinconsulting.ch Support: http://support.merlinconsulting.ch GPS: N47 20.235 E8 34.226 -------------------------------------------- News - Neue Produkte: .:. Kiwi Syslog Monitor .:. Paessler GmbH .:. Sawmill Loganalyzer -------------------------------------------- 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/
