> What you're paying for is industrial-strength design, coding, testing and
> experience. Take my case and do it daily or weekly. $5000 is cheap for a
> piece of software that makes it routine and automated for lists with 10s of
> thousands of subscribers.
I agree completely, and per-user or incremental pricing is not unusual
for large scale software packages. (Oracle comes to mind--welcome to
the world of corporate software!)
The issue is whether this package, still in beta, qualifies as industrial
strength yet. After they've had some INDEPENDENT beta users or software
reviewers report on how it functioned in a real-world environment, I'll be
willing to admit that their claims are more than marketing hype, but at
this point that's all they are.
I run a free list with over 1000 subscribers on it using procmail/smartlist,
and although it is a good package maintenance issues still take up a lot of
my (uncompensated) time. But even though I might be interested in this
package, I'd say that given the current pricing structure it has little or
no chance of getting my business.
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Mike Nolan
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