RE: FLASH: Generator License Changed?

[Jefferis]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:24:29 -0500, "McIlvain, J. Sean" 

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SEAN [dot] MCILVAINsaic [dot] com

> wrote:


>This is part of an email recieved from an isp in regards to the Generator

>license fees.

>

>"Macromedia's current price of the Generator license is $4300.  However we

>have

>been told that this will be increased in April to around $15,000 per cpu.

> No, that's not a typo, it's $15,000."

>

>Sounds great......or greedy.



Hey JD,  pass this along to marketing.


Generator has always been a little out of my league and focus, but I had 

considered it for some projects.   It is now way out of reach. It looks 

like it is geared only to mega corps.   


I would think from a marketing perspective, you might generate a lot more 

revenue if you charged me the developer say, $2,000 for the product, and 

then every site that I hosted and used, the site license would be $500.  


It's kind of like the hidden truth that small businesses in America 

generate the majority of the GNP and new jobs.  Not a single one of my 

current clients will be able to afford the $5000, much less the $15k.    

But if the situation were as I said above, I could see eventually adding 

the generator functions to 100's of future clients and a few already. 


I am sure my situation would be replicated in literally 1,000's of small 

to intermediate web designers and hosts across the country.    But they 

way it is geared it seems like it will reach only the Fortune 1,000 or 

the Fortune 5,000  -   AND you know you won't get all those sales. 


Just my 2�


Jeff




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