Hello all,
I want to start out by thanking everyone for this debate... This needs to be aired. I want to preface my post with the disclaimer that I am letting off a bit of frustrated steam here... please take this with a grain of salt. I do not wish to offend anyone, but I need to add my voice.
I am 100% with the idea that people need to understand that open source is not free (as in beer)... But... I agree that the managers at Zimbra are locking themselves out of market space. Heck, it seems that there are enough people clamoring, why don't they just sell a per-seat outlook or isync connector?? (Heck, set a cap of 25 individual licenses if you really feel that strongly about it.) Talk about not listening to the community... heh.
I am a very small consulting team. Two people... We need to share... but $800 a year is not an option. If anything I am tempted to buy it once and never renew. Maybe if it was $800 upfront and $300-$400 a year to renew I would... but $800 a year is a whole lot of $$ for me. Maybe in two or three years when I have another two employees, I would be happy to spend that… but right now, that is not an option.
I do feel the need to send a glare down to whomever it was that said about using just the web ui... This is the typical response that M$ pushes and it is WRONG! We are not all connected all the time! (Nor should it be, but that is another rant) Just because most coders are not finding themselves on airplanes often or on the road, they seem to miss the fact that 'hey, I need to type up and read downloaded e-mails... but I don't always have reasonable internet access' and no $20/min on the plane is Not reasonable. (Maybe for good 'ol Billy, but not me)
-Cheers, Peter.  |