Ilija Studen:Progress updates
..What stopped us from writing any new post for a month was bitterness of some people who commented..
Pricing and licensing
To be completely honest, that post scares me a bit. First, I am not comfortable about publishing pricing details before activeCollab 1.0 is shipped and I said that earlier. That post will be start of an endless discussion about features, how couldn't it be cheaper, what we should include in free version etc etc etc. You know what I'm talking about. Time that such discussion can consume could easily be invested in making sure that we deliver activeCollab sooner or move to the new office (we couldn't pick a better moment to move :D ).
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@Ilja, thank you for your post, it has shed a little light on why and I can sympathize.
In regards to licensing, and pricing. I have many years experience with some of the major software vendors in the world, from Microsoft, Veritas, Symantec, Adobe, VMWare, CommVault, to name a few. I have extensive experience in their cost models and licensing programs.
I invite you to discuss this privately with me, you can run by me what you had in mind and I can tell you how it's likely to work in the market. I will give you an unbiased opinion as quite frankly no one here is more cashed up than we are, so the price you set will not be an issue for us no matter what.
At least you can then have a test to "sound out" the pricing against the expectations of our business, which is quite frankly one of the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere.
Thanks for the update, and good luck with the release.
I saw this interesting blog post on Vitamin.com on how to price your web apps. I'm not affiliated with the website in any way.
http://tinyurl.com/27nqfl
http://tinyurl.com/27nqfl
As shrike with Finnish, I might give you a French translation. We already use AC 0.7 in our small and very francophone company and would love to carry on with the 1.0 as it fullfil most of the needs we have.
Any news on when you will be releasing information on the API and other methods of interfacing with the new system. We have created a bunch of tools that allow us to cross integrate with the aC 0.71. We want to start planning on getting them functional with this new version when it is released.
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