*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.
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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https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL><
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https://twitter.com/ICSIL>
>>
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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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