At 9:18 AM +0100 11/27/96, Eric Thomas wrote:
>On Tue, 26 Nov 1996 19:58:55 -0500 (EST) Merrill Cook <mcook@ecunet.org>
>said:
>
>>The pricing I've seen suggests that they want to make money selling a
>>few copies. If they wanted to sell lots they wouldn't be charging so
>>much.
>
>LISTSERV Lite goes for $500-2000 OTC (corporate), with a free edition for
>non commercial use.
>
>It isn't possible to sell "lots" of copies of a mailing list manager, at
>least not in the meaning normally associated with PC software. There are
>thousands of copies of the freebies in use, not millions, not hundreds of
>thousands, not even tens of thousands.
Actually, I think the number is up into the tens of thousands by now.
There have been about 1500 registered installations of Majordomo 1.94 since
it was released a little over a month ago. I think we can safely
extrapolate that into "tens of thousands", when you consider all the 1.94
installations that weren't registered, all the sites running older versions
of Majordomo which didn't have a registration process, and all the sites
running something else entirely.
Your general point is still valid, though: there's no money to be made on a
total installed base of 10,000 units if you want to follow a PC market
model.
-Brent
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