[discussion] Schema of Valentina server licensing

[Charles Yeomans]

I think that $1 per connection is cheap.

Charles Yeomans

On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> on 6/20/03 20:45, Charles Yeomans at yeomans at desuetude.com wrote:
>
> Charles,
>
> So after all this explanation and examples.
>
> Assume you develop not software for one copy only,
> But something that will be distributes in 1000-100,000 copies.
>
> I.e. Assume you need Embedded Server.
> Then how now sounds to you our prices?
>
> I can repeat that first example:
>
>> Assume you have sale 10,000 copies of your application with 
>> 5connection.
>> Assume you have sale it at price $50-$500.
>> So you get $500,000 - $5,000,000
>>
>>
>> Now let 5,000 your customers want to have 15 connections.
>> So you need sale them 5,000 * (15 - 5) = 50,000 connections.
>> Such bulk you can buy from us for $1 per connection.
>>
>>
>> So you need pay us $50,000, and you now can resale this connections 
>> at price
>> that is acceptable on market. This is  $1-$70.
>> Therefore you can get $50,000 - $3,500,000.
>>
>> Question is, is OUR price: $50,000 sounds reasonable
>> comparing to Developer's profit ?
>