Jeff betts
Jbetts@ccaccess.net
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> From: Ian Pizey <ifpizey@kenora.com>
> To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
> Subject: RE: post.office 3.0 is coming
> Date: Saturday, March 22, 1997 7:52 PM
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> Re this Post Office thing...
>
> We have been just ready to go out and purchase Post Office for our Mail
> server.
>
> But in light of the recent Price increases and possible future increases,
> it would be prudent to pursue other products. If more users would voice
> their concerns in the same way then Software.com might listen.
>
> Post Office is a good product, despite the few issues. However, when a
> company takes a position that their product is the best so they must
raise
> their prices, I get upset. I do not expect software.com to give away
> product. But based on this thread they are using the high support costs
as
> a justification for price increase. I would think it would be best for
> them to charge for the support. Perhaps on a per incident basis. This
way
> the users of the support will pay for it. In the software industry this
> is an accepted practice.
>
> Oh well just my two cents worth.. Off to look for another mail
server....
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> At 03:08 PM 3/29/97 -0600, you wrote:
> >Well, if anyone thinks we're making a lot of money I'll be glad to show
> >them my accounting books and the loss I've sustained for the past year.
Not
> >because of lack of customers but because of HIGH overhead and the
limited
> >number of people you can sell on one dial-up line, 1:10 if your lucky.
> >Also, our prices have now dropped to as low as 14.97/month, because we
have
> >6 ISP's in a county of 100,000. Two years ago you could get $35.00/month
> >and setup fees. Try that now.
> >
> >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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> >> Jeff Weiss EASI
> >> jeff@tsns.com 61 Holmes Avenue
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