Sorry your business ideas don't float. Microsoft does up dates and the cost is
very small. Windows is a much more complex program. The prices Jenter-Joyce is
charging is simply a example of bad business practices. Lotus gave up software
protection devices when they found that there were a very small percentage of the
people trying to pirate the software, the cost of the protection was costing a
fortune. It all deals with Henter-Joyce bad business practices and a captive
market. Dick and Scotty the Wonder Guide Dog.
dave wrote:
> To: Carlos Sanchez
>
> If HJ were to even double the price of the SMA, it would still be
> a good bargain for customers. Please read the long message containing
> my cost analysis of the price of JFW for NT to learn some of the
> many things that go into the price.
>
> In my experience, it costs more to maintain a piece of software
> over its life span than it costs to develop it in the first place,
> I've been working with software since 1971.
>
> If a software company has to bundle many years worth of updates
> and maintenance into the original selling price, they would price
> themselves out of business. And if they don't come out with regular
> updates, bug fixes, and general improvements, they will also go out
> of business. Therefore, an ongoing maintenance fee is the fairest
> way to make sure the customer can get updates and bug fixes, and also
> to make sure the software company is fairly reimbursed for all the
> work they put into the development and ongoing maintenance of the software.
>
> And to your other statement, no, I cannot agree that HJ is making more
> money than ever before. Unless we see all of their accounting reports
> going back for all the years, we just don't know that.
>
> At 11:06 AM 1/9/1999 -0500, you wrote:
> >Well if this is the case, then why is it that HJ finds it necessary to raise
> >the price of SMA's. You got to agree that HJ is making more money then ever
> >before. Why the increase? Could it be that they are taking the
> >incorporation of Magic into account. Well at any case my biggest gripe is
> >that just when something gets good something else goes bad. It's like they
> >can't keep everything working all together good. Overall it is the best but
> >the little imperfections that are around with JFW's scripts are
> >accumilatively annoying.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Carlos
>
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