I would like various price points. Something like
Documentation should be available free $29.99 pa for (Personal) * Automatic updates * This mailings list * A HOWTO: dealing giving detailed examples of often asked or hard to acheive setups (you could also perhaps allow users to offer bountys for good HOWTO: articles and then write them yourself or have the community write it) $100 pa for (Small business) * Above * 1 Support incident per annum (telephone or email) additional incidents available at $75 er incident (you could sell a 5 pack for $325) * Other things, like training but what kind of training are you talking about? One to one? At training centre? A video? ? ? $399 pa for (Medium business) * Above * Addtional tools (none GPL) for managing multiple installs * 3 support incidents $1,199 pa for (coporate) * Above * Preferencial unlimited access to support for upto 10 installs, additional installs $100 pa * Telephone and email access to a planning and advisory service Or something to the above effect, I think you need to acknowledge the full bredth of market that Openfiler attracts. For instance for myself I would happily pay $29.99 pa, and for the business where I am IT Manager I would happily pay $399 pa (or $1,199 pa if I thought the product important enough to my business). I think you should do a lot of thinking about the various market segments and look at what is really attractive to each, home users and hobbyiest are attracted by very diffeent things to large corporations). Jason _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
