Re: 5.0 Pricing

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2003


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texte = You people are amazing! SMSI has decided to broaden the base of users for WebDNA (something that many people on this list have been grousing about for years) by cutting the entry price and making it cheap to add additional licenses. This is the best news on the WebDNA front in a long time! The incremental license cost of $50 is very reasonable, considering that it is not time-limited; every time a new customer signs on that you are hosting, you bill them your actual cost of $50 to license their site. No serious business will even blanch at that. Compare this to the per seat cost of anti-virus software and you will see that it is a very reasonable expense.Since the first time that SMSI announced the preliminary upgrade pricing, they have even created a new unlimited Commerce license, for those people who don't need the features of the Enterprise Edition. But that's not good enough for you! As an existing customer, you want, nay demand, to be given the upgrade to 5.0 for little or nothing! SMSI has to pay for the development of the new features. They cannot do it strictly on the basis of new customers.Get real! If you feel that you simply _have_ to have an unlimited license, and cannot afford to spend $1495 for an upgrade of your core platform, your business model needs some serious revising. SMSI has changed the licensing model, for the better, IMNSHO, and if you don't like it, don't upgrade. Go write all of the e-commerce code yourself in PHP or Perl and discover exactly how much work it will involve.Speaking strictly for myself and my company, we will be purchasing the Enterprise Edition upgrade (since it includes the Intranet features), which even at $2995 is still a bargain to my mind. If I was a new customer, I'd buy 4.5 now just so I could get a better deal on 5.0 when it comes out.John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
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  6. Re: Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating (Donovan 2003)
  7. Re: Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating (Kimberly D. Walls 2003)
  8. Re: Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating (John Peacock 2003)
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  10. Re: Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating (Nitai @ ComputerOil 2003)
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  12. Re: Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating (Donovan 2003)
  13. Re: Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating (Alex McCombie 2003)
  14. Re: Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating (Nitai @ ComputerOil 2003)
  15. Re: Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating (Donovan 2003)
  16. Re: Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating (Brian Fries 2003)
  17. Re: Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating (Bob Minor 2003)
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  19. Re: Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating (Phillip Bonesteele 2003)
  20. Re: Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating (WJ Starck 2003)
  21. Was 5.0 Pricing, now Sandbox versus Website and ruminating (Phillip Bonesteele 2003)
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  26. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Bob Minor 2003)
  27. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Donovan 2003)
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  29. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Stuart Tremain 2003)
  30. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Alain Russell 2003)
  31. Re: 5.0 Pricing (John Peacock 2003)
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  33. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Donovan 2003)
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  47. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Nitai @ ComputerOil 2003)
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  51. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Donovan 2003)
  52. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Doug Deck 2003)
  53. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Nitai @ ComputerOil 2003)
  54. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Alain Russell 2003)
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  56. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Doug Deck 2003)
  57. Re: 5.0 Pricing (WJ Starck 2003)
  58. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Nitai @ ComputerOil 2003)
  59. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Alain Russell 2003)
  60. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Dale's Stuff 2003)
  61. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Doug Deck 2003)
  62. Re: 5.0 Pricing (Doug Deck 2003)
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You people are amazing! SMSI has decided to broaden the base of users for WebDNA (something that many people on this list have been grousing about for years) by cutting the entry price and making it cheap to add additional licenses. This is the best news on the WebDNA front in a long time! The incremental license cost of $50 is very reasonable, considering that it is not time-limited; every time a new customer signs on that you are hosting, you bill them your actual cost of $50 to license their site. No serious business will even blanch at that. Compare this to the per seat cost of anti-virus software and you will see that it is a very reasonable expense.Since the first time that SMSI announced the preliminary upgrade pricing, they have even created a new unlimited Commerce license, for those people who don't need the features of the Enterprise Edition. But that's not good enough for you! As an existing customer, you want, nay demand, to be given the upgrade to 5.0 for little or nothing! SMSI has to pay for the development of the new features. They cannot do it strictly on the basis of new customers.Get real! If you feel that you simply _have_ to have an unlimited license, and cannot afford to spend $1495 for an upgrade of your core platform, your business model needs some serious revising. SMSI has changed the licensing model, for the better, IMNSHO, and if you don't like it, don't upgrade. Go write all of the e-commerce code yourself in PHP or Perl and discover exactly how much work it will involve.Speaking strictly for myself and my company, we will be purchasing the Enterprise Edition upgrade (since it includes the Intranet features), which even at $2995 is still a bargain to my mind. If I was a new customer, I'd buy 4.5 now just so I could get a better deal on 5.0 when it comes out.John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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