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Originally Posted by rootako  Yeah I agree with you in terms of pricing, Zimbra is quite high, the reason why SME companies are leaving MS Exchange is because of licensing and Zimbra simply lower this but its still expensive, for the standard and enterprise edition, the per user/year cost is still high, my clients said to me and I quote "why should i shift since the price of zimbra which cliams to be an open source company is asking almost half of the price of MS EXchange? There is no swooping change on the pricing!"
My opinion is., hope Zimbra can come up with unlimited subscription both for hosted and not hosted solutions especially in the third world country like ours, the Philippines, dnt be so microsoft otherwise you will be hated also by Linux and Open Source advocates.
My two cents... |
There is no way Zimbra or any company will offer "unlimited subscription" without per user licensing fees. The only point you can try to make is to give you a better per license deal. The only way you can get "unlimited subscription" is if you run the open source and perhaps have a software development team to extend its features to include whatever else the commercial version does.
I'm not sure of what you mean by
"dnt be so microsoft otherwise you will be hated also by Linux and Open Source advocates" when all I suggested was for Yahoo to sell Zimbra commercial licensing in 5packs like Microsoft does to suit any company size which is the smartest thing they will ever do. Besides, the conversation is about Zimbra commercial version and not the open source version so I'm unsure of what you mean that open source advocates will have an issue with what I said. Furthermore, the truth will always be the truth and it will set you free regardless what anyone thinks or feels about it. Everyone looking to adopt Zimbra commercial version has the same problem with the licensing model, so if Yahoo knows the truth I suggested in my previous post, they will heed it and set themselves and customers free....if they would only listen to their audience.