Hi folks,
  This is rather offtopic, but some of you are bound to have 
experience in this area if you're selling software which is licensed 
"per PC."

Basically, how deep do you discount on volume sales and at what 
point (if ANY) do you just say "Enterprise wide, fixed price, $xxx"?  

For example, now that we've released TurboNote+ (the shareware 
product), we're starting to get a few nice multi-license orders -- 5, 
10, 20 sort of thing. We've catered for them with pricing and pretty 
serious discounts that go all the way up to a 500-user license, and 
implicitly beyond (see 
http://TurboNote.com/spis/runisa.dll?SV:tnregister to see what I 
mean).         

Implicitly, we're following a model which basically says "there IS no 
fixed Enterprise-wide license, it's per-seat all the way". We did that 
on the recommendation of others with direct experience in this area 
and, on the whole, we're pretty comfortable with it. But, for those 
who have been in this position before: what approach is best if a 
corporation with perhaps tens or hundreds of thousands of 
employees gets in touch? Seems pretty silly to be saying "$Xty 
thousand for that many, and 5c per additional user" <g>.  

Opinions welcome (private or public), especially if informed by 
some experience in this area.  


cheers,
peter

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Peter Hyde, WebCentre Ltd & SPIS Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand
* Web automation for online periodicals: http://TurboPress.com
* TurboNote+: http://TurboPress.com/tbnote.htm
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