Or like other companies that offer it in varied degrees as needed by our client base instead of all or nothing. What I mean is what our company owns now, unlimited users for regular email and be able to add ICS in services packs according to what we can sell rather than buy more that we need. I guess this could be applied to our own marketing plans and offer it as an Exchange like email environment, however I have serious doubts that it will do the things that can be done with a real Exchange server where other Microsoft tools are involved.
I will say this after looking at Merak and MDeamon, if a person wanted unlimited users Ipswitch pricing is not all that bad. But that is a big if in the market today, we only have been asked a few times for Exchange functionality and those clients were not willing to pay for the Microsoft CALs needed for it, we already own Exchange with a 25 CAL. So I am not so sure that small businesses will be willing to go there and support these costs, especially not that Microsoft in now offering a much more attractive SPLA pricing plan. It makes using their products a much more affordable method IMHO, and the functionality is 100% compatible with the rest of their products rather than just Outlook file sharing. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Collaboration is now available :( >I can see IMail's point of view. The small and mid-sized ISPs which were >its market are a fading group, or at least one heading towards stasis. >They're not going to shipping many more units out. I guess it's an issue of >try a bold move or fade away. I don't fault them for the ICS release, but I >do fault them for basically turfing 90% of their customer base in the >process. > I agree with this. IPSwitch proably needing to look at other markets and providing the Collaboration Server in that aspect is a good Idea. For me the question is why the need for imediate wholesale abandonment rather than some sort of transition period that provides IMail as a seperate product even if direct development is limited or development/support is limited to patches/fixes. The Collaboration Server product has been in devlopment for some time. It seems a transition period of some sort could have been factored in. Unless of course part of the thought was "we've got em they are too heavly invested to switch" they will have to pay. Which seems to be a somewhat common attiude of some. This seems like jumping into the pit to fight the 600lb gorilla and flipping off the guy in charge of the ladder. Stu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - CSOnline Technical Support Normal hours - Monday thru Saturday 8am - 10pm CSOnline Technical Support Numbers Seneca 814-677-2447 Clarion 814-227-3638 Cochranton 814-425-1696 Parker 724-399-1158 GremLan 814-337-7060 http://www.csonline.net http://www.cshowcase.com http://www.learncenter.com http://www.gremlan.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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/
