At 3:55 AM -0000 11/28/96, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>bigger? What more do I get when I pay the premium for more lists and/or
What you get more of is service.
I have no stake in (or knowledge about) Lyris, and I even share
your discomfort about such licensing, when the product itself does not
change with the fee.
The problem, however, is a serious dilemma for software
manufacturers. How do they price aggressively and still make money? For
example, how do you encourage entry-level users of the package? This
requires a low price. But list service software is not a (relatively) high
volume market. As someone noted in an earlier message, the entire market
is probably at most in the tens or hundreds of thousands of installations,
rather than in the tens of millions.
So charge people according to use. Small users pay small fees.
large users pay larger fees.
Having said all the above, my personal choice probably would have
been to try to avoid reactions like yours by designing differential
products, so that the cheap one is somewhat less performant (e.g.,
single-threaded) and scales less well and maybe has fewer management
features. But that's more hassle.
d/
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