Has anyone experienced a hardware change that actually
lowered the tier they were in and if so what would the
software vendor that had tiered pricing say when you went to
them and said you are moving to a lower tier so now you
would like a refund in the difference in the pricing between
the two (opposite if they moved up a tier)?
We sell all of our software with Flat Pricing, no matter how
many users or what Tier or CPW not even partitions loaded it
on 10 partitions o extra charge and if you are under
maintenance no charge for new security code when you change
your hardware.
John Allen
DRV Technologies
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www.drvtech.com
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[
mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rich
Loeber
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:35 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Ridiculous software transfer fees (was EDI and
Inovis)
Adam,
I think there is some logic in the tier based pricing
model, although we
have rarely used this model for our business. The
thinking goes along the
lines that the more capacity the system has, the more
users there are and
the more the software gets used as a result. This plays
especially in the
area of support. On a small system with limited
capacity, the software is
used less, there are fewer users and, consequently, there
is a lot less
support required.
Does anyone else recall other thinking behind this
pricing model?
Rich Loeber
Kisco Information Systems
http://www.kisco.com
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AGlauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Rich Loeber wrote on 12/07/2007 10:13:41:
> [...] if the software is tier
> priced and you are moving from one tier up into
another tier [..]
> I think it is reasonable for you to pay the
difference between the
> two license fees for the tiers.
That seems logical to me. Tier based pricing as a
whole does not
however.
This isn't something I've seen in the PC world (where
user-based
pricing
seems to be the norm). Anyone care to comment on what
they think the
logic behind tier-based pricing is?
- Adam
P.S. - I'm not really crazy about user-based pricing
either, though I'm
coming to think it might be the least of the evils.
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