> How do you justify the increase in price when the lists/subscribers gets
> bigger? What more do I get when I pay the premium for more lists and/or
> subscribers? I must get "more" of something due to the increase in the
> price?
Basically, Lyris is a high end list server packages. A lot of work
has gone into developing it, and a lot of work continues to go into
improving it. Because free software exists, we need to be much
better in order to justify charging a price at all.
Our use-limited pricing scheme is not without precedent. Many
server programs, such as Network servers (Novell, Windows NT,
Solaris) and Database servers (Oracle, Sybase) offer similar pricing
schemes.
The only alternatives are to cater exclusively to the high end (with
only a high-priced version) or to offer limited versions in some way.
We thought about offering cheaper versions of Lyris which had
features removed (no web interface, for instance), but decided that
would really frustrate people. Instead, we decided to meter how
much "use" you are going to get out of Lyris as a way to offer a less
expensive entry point. That way, even the least expensive version
has all the features and benefits of the full version.
Every pricing scheme has its faults and its advantages. This is what
we decided on. It allows us to develop a good product, continue
improving it, and make a reasonable profit.
john
john@shelby.com, Shelby Group Ltd., http://www.shelby.com/
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