RE: Postoffice 3.5 released

Jeff Woods ( jwoods@delta.com )
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:32:46 -0400

At 02:27 PM 6/9/98 -0700, you wrote:

>>The pricing is simply ridiculous. We like Post.Office 3.1.2 very much. But,
>>at that sort of price, there is no way we are going to even consider
>>upgrading. Most vendors give their customers free, or very low cost,
>>upgrades within version types. Apparently Software.com doesn't think this
>>way, and doesn't care about customer loyalty. This pricing structure will
>>drive customers away in droves.

You didn't notice this when the pricing changes from 2.x to 3.0? That's
when I bailed for NTmail. I'm quite happy with it, other than the rumor
that they will move their NTList product (a bundled part) to per-mailbox
pricing as well, when they upgrade from 3.03d to v4.0 (quite the major
upgrade from what I hear). Also, the per-mailbox pricing is a LOT more
reasonable than $99 per 100 boxes, and the flat upgrade pricing of $495
makes the decision quite easy.
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>>On the other hand I must admit that the Postoffice E-Mail server works
>>>flawlessly since we are using it. Rock solid never had a problem, but the
>>>pricing strategy of software.com is becoming a problem for us.
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>>I'm in full agreement with you. It should have been a free upgrade for 3.x
>>customers. Their pricing is leading us to IMail faster than Software.com
>>would have ever believed.
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