On Mon, 14 Aug 1995 22:58:52 +0200 Eric Thomas said: >Well, but the license you're paying for only costs $550/year, and that >figure includes both license and maintenance. Even if it were a pure >maintenance cost, how much qualified manpower can you buy with $550 in >the DC area? :-) Or, if you prefer a more corporate-oriented angle, how >much would it cost you to do without the $550 unix license and deliver >all your mail on VM? :-) > > Eric I guess it depends on which side of the coin you're looking at. It's almost certain that we will be ditching VM entirely. And considering that we're currently spending $2500 on VM's Listserv, another license for Lmail, and yet another on Unix's Listserv, the budget axers tend to get whack happy. We very nearly lost ALL Lsoft products for this year because the unix bigots tend to love the freebe products (never mind performance). $550 isn't a 'only costs' here anymore. It gets compared to other software that's free (fair or not). Besides, you could always move the company out of DC where the cost of living is something non-lunar? ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Barnes (409) 846-3273 (home) [log in to unmask] (409) 845-9520 (work) http://tamvm1.tamu.edu/~cbarnes/ "I am in the greater danger before God when I know clearly what He wants me to do, but willfully & defiantly refuse to obey." - Dr. James Dobson (ref: James 4:17)