Re: Version 12?
Hi Tom,
You make valid points!
When pushing the new "subscription only" Plan, they even might loose what they have now. That should level out the looking for "new" customers I think.
Alpha of course is excited about their product. As a matter of fact, so am I. However, they don't need to wait 6 months to release new functionality now either. There actually IS the option of updating available. Updates could become available at a price as well. You don't need a completely new subscription model to do just that. They now have just "Patches". Why not include "Updates"?
That is true. So why endangering your current customer base? I don't see the point in that.
Sure. But you see, in the end it is all about "income". Money pays the salaries and the rent. So that needs to be there. And that is your ultimate drive to perform. Everybody knows, that if that motivation is pushed to the back, performance will go down as a matter of fact. If your salary is paid at the end of the month, no matter what you achieve, then the pressure to achieve just is less. If you need the money at the end of the month, and you will only get it if you perform, then pressure is high. With that I do not say that Alpha won't feel any pressure to achieve when in a subscription system. It just is less, because the monthly security evens the risk out smoothly. It is not for nothing they are after the subscription system in the first place. Why would you think they would want that?
Bottom line for me is, that I am not against Alpha exploiting new sales models. I am even not against "subscription" as a system.
I am against the ONE choice: ALL or NOTHING.
That is an option that does not fit into nowadays competitive environment at all. I already gave the example of the developer who only uses the Developer license and now has to "upgrade" to the "complete package" which will increase his costs by a shocking 1832 percent! Now, what is "competitive" about that? Since when does Mercedes Benz only sell its 600 model ?
Hi Tom,
You make valid points!
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Bottom line for me is, that I am not against Alpha exploiting new sales models. I am even not against "subscription" as a system.
I am against the ONE choice: ALL or NOTHING.
That is an option that does not fit into nowadays competitive environment at all. I already gave the example of the developer who only uses the Developer license and now has to "upgrade" to the "complete package" which will increase his costs by a shocking 1832 percent! Now, what is "competitive" about that? Since when does Mercedes Benz only sell its 600 model ?
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