I use Post.Office and they must think we are complete idiots if they think
I will pay that amount of money for a damn mail server, jeeeez. I don't
care how good there stuff Is. Can you say Microsoft, which they want $6K
for there normandy system :-(.
Can you say "TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT" :-).
Bye,
At 09:20 AM 3/22/97 -0500, you wrote:
>At 06:08 PM 3/21/97 -0600, Randy Martin wrote:
>
>>If you guys are honest, you will admit that it costs you no more to sell me
>>a 50-user license product than it does an unlimited-user product as long as
>>I don't use you for support! It's the support for the 20,000-user guy that
>>costs you all the money. So, you should just charge for the support. I
>>don't need any support, I don't want any support, I can manage just fine on
>>my own. Why should I be penalized because someone who wants to maintain a
>>20,000-mailbox system need constant handholding? You guys are going to
>>alienate A LOT of users with this current pricing scheme.
>
>I doubt that someone maintaining a 20K user system needs any more
>handholding than someone supporting 2K users. That's just the party line.
>Let's face it, ISPs are perceived as "making a lot of money". So, why
>shouldn't the people who help make the ISPs possible (software/hardware
>vendors) try get a slice of that pie? That's the real reason they're
>trying to get $2/user. I think the buzzword is "value added pricing".
>
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