Comment Re:Not a Good Business Model for Enterprise (Score 1) 718
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I did not state that the OSS software was not useful or cost effective for a larger firm. Where did you get that from my post? I was simply stating how it affects small firms like mine who have 5 - 25 employees--I want to use OSS, but it is not (always) a responsible financial move, imho, for smaller firms.
Instead of Zimbra, I would use Scalix free edition. Scalix has done the licensing right--get the smaller firms to use your product and become familiar with the featureset and benefits without charging for its use (charge for support) for firms with less than 25 users. Scalix is affordable for smaller firms, Zimbra is not.
My only comment was to state how I thought Zimbra was leaving something on the table. However, I should have thrown in the Scalix example in the first post.
Again, I didn't say that enterprise-class businesses would not be better served using OSS...
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I did not state that the OSS software was not useful or cost effective for a larger firm. Where did you get that from my post? I was simply stating how it affects small firms like mine who have 5 - 25 employees--I want to use OSS, but it is not (always) a responsible financial move, imho, for smaller firms.
Instead of Zimbra, I would use Scalix free edition. Scalix has done the licensing right--get the smaller firms to use your product and become familiar with the featureset and benefits without charging for its use (charge for support) for firms with less than 25 users. Scalix is affordable for smaller firms, Zimbra is not.
My only comment was to state how I thought Zimbra was leaving something on the table. However, I should have thrown in the Scalix example in the first post.
Again, I didn't say that enterprise-class businesses would not be better served using OSS...
Counsel
