CLARIFICATION OF 5.7 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS

[Richard Kreiss]

I hold 2 licenses for development. I asked the question, does this mean I need to have 2 annual subscriptions. 

The answer was it may be negotiable. 

At this point, spending money for a program with bugs and then having to pay to get the fixes doesn't make sense. 

I know that all but one client will not upgrade as their businesses are suffering financially. 

There will have to be something very compelling in 5.7 for any of them to upgrade. 

As it stands now, I have client's using 4.5, 4.8 and 5.0. I only hear from them when they move to a new computer or when they purchase a new dumb Windows printer. 

Although this "model" pricing may make sense to fptech from a financial point of view. I think that this is Bud's attempt to move to a subscription model where one must lease the software each year. 

On paper this may improve their cash flow but in the long run, developers and customers will move away from filePro as too expensive. 

Richard
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On Jul 29, 2011, at 12:13 AM, "Shane Gray" <shane at satsof.com.au> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: filepro-list-bounces+fplist=satsof.com.au at lists.celestial.com
>> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+fplist=satsof.com.au at lists.celestial.com] On
>> Behalf Of Jay Ashworth
>> Sent: Friday, 29 July 2011 9:51 AM
>> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>> Subject: Re: CLARIFICATION OF 5.7 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "FpTech Sales" <sales at fptech.com>
>> 
>>> Example: Customer A purchases 5.7.00 and is given the option to
>>> purchasse the annual subscription for 20% of the total list price of
>>> the invoice. He decides to purchase the annual subscription and will
>>> be entitled to download ALL the releases during the term of the
>>> subscription; therefore, as release become available for download, he
>>> simply downloads the product ( example 5.7.08) and starts using the
>>> feature(s) available in
>>> ALL the releases from 5.7.00 to 5.7.08.
>>> 
>>> Customer B decides that he would like to upgrade to 5.7 from 5.0.09.
>>> He has to pay 65% of the total list price to upgrade to 5.7.00. He is
>>> also given the option to purchase the annual subscription. He
>>> declines. He is entitled to download ONLY 5.7.00 (WHICH IS THE
>>> STARTING POINT OF ALL NEW OR UPDATED PURCHASES). He does not start at
>>> 5.7.08 since he would get all the features from 5.7.00 to 5.7.08 which
>>> is not fair to those who have purchased the annual subscription
>>> starting at 5.7.00;
>> 
> 
> This may explain why nobody's mentioned much about the 5.7 new features!
> Anybody tried out the MySQL capabilities?
> 
> Shane.
> 
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