Indeed.
Infact we retain the community edition for two primary reasons :
a) Because I don't think home users should have to pay. (They're not making money from using my shit!)
b) Letting people try before they buy is super great marketing!
I'm not really terribly cool with commercial organisations benefiting from the costlessness of open source software. Why should someone who'll pay Cisco $50k for a router get my work for free?
Home/enthusiast users, meh.
adam.
------ Original Message ------ From: "Mike Hammett" observium-list@ics-il.net To: "Observium Network Observation System" observium@observium.org Sent: 1/9/2015 9:56:36 PM Subject: Re: [Observium] cheap much? re: trial
*nods* I'm not against paying for a good product that does what I want. I was just telling the other poster that I if I paid for everything I test drove, I'd be broke. You don't buy every car you test drive.
Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com
From: "Adam Armstrong" adama@memetic.org To: "Observium Network Observation System" observium@observium.org Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 7:23:16 PM Subject: Re: [Observium] cheap much? re: trial
And of course, the low price is possible by encouraging the maximum number of people to pay, which in turn keeps the price low!
When we first started the subscription product, many people recommended we set the price at £1,000 with options scaling up to £10,000, but I always thought that was ridiculous. I wanted to price to be at a level any commercial operation could afford, since every commercial operation using Observium *should* have a subscription for updates. I wouldn't want to be the customer of a company using 6 month old software to dodge £150!
Whilst there's still might be some reason to encourage larger customers to pay more (you know who you are! :D), I don't really like the idea of removing features from other people to encourage them.
As for trials, well. Our product is the code. Once you have the code, you have no reason to pay, so we really can't provide a trail. But at the end of the day, the subscription was always meant to be about the updates, not the features. It's just reality that if we pushed the current subscription features to CE, half of our users would stop paying, we'd no longer be commercial viable and Observium would die.
That's life, folks! :D
adam.
------ Original Message ------ From: "Teemu Grönqvist" teemu.gronqvist@net9.fi To: "Observium Network Observation System" observium@observium.org Sent: 1/9/2015 6:48:53 AM Subject: Re: [Observium] cheap much? re: trial
Yeah, not everyone has the money. We are a small server hosting
company
and we sell very, very cheap instances of games etc.
It would be very hard to keep prices low if the sofware we used wouldn't be inexpensive. We are very happy with the Observium
Community
Edition and are looking forward to moving onto the Observium Professional.
Thanks to the people who make Observium and it's low prices possible!
Regards, Teemu Grönqvist Net9 Oy
9.1.2015, 14:44, Mike Hammett kirjoitti:
Not everyone has money to throw around. We're not all Level 3 or Tiscali with large world-wide networks.
My goal (and I'm still on track to do so) was to get things working
in
the open source version, then move to commercial once I was happy
with
it.
Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com
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*From: *"Rob VanHooren" rob_vanhooren@mac.com *To: *observium@observium.org *Sent: *Friday, January 9, 2015 6:42:06 AM *Subject: *[Observium] cheap much? re: trial
really?
it’s what, a hundred quid?
for a whole year.
your bossfolk will collectively burn that up in under one minute of pedantic jawing at their next useless meeting.
and they can’t let you take a year’s flyer to gain added features for software that you already like?
do they make staff pay per cup for coffee/tea in the office kitchen too?
charge rental fees for using up their whiteboard markers?
sixpence per sheet in the company loo?
~boggle~
R.
On Jan 9, 2015, at 07:00, observium-request@observium.org <mailto:observium-request@observium.org> wrote: I would very much like to test this functionality in the commercial edition of Observium before purchasing a subscription
is this possible please?
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