Gerald,
One hundred MySQL licenses still works out to $90.00 USD. Even if it worked out to half
that would still leave me with no margin and so no compensation for my time. I am trying
to find a way of using MySQL in a very low cost market and still have still have pocket
change after each sale. The current pricing scheme does not support this market and I am
hoping that MySQL is open to suggestions to allow it to support that market.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: gerald_clark [mailto:gerald_clark@stripped]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 3:13 PM
To: John Griffin
Cc: David Axmark; Damir Dezeljin; MySQL List
Subject: Re: InterBase vs. Mysql
Buy a hundred at a time.
John Griffin wrote:
>Actually, I am trying to address the problem of having to buy a $200 MySQL license for
> every $50 software product I sell. If you have a solution for this problem I would like to
> know what it is. This is a licensing issue that I haven't found a good solution for.
>
>John
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: gerald_clark [mailto:gerald_clark@stripped]
>Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:49 PM
>To: John Griffin
>Cc: David Axmark; Damir Dezeljin; MySQL List
>Subject: Re: InterBase vs. Mysql
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>Well, then I would buy a $50.00 product using MySQL, and then
>your $5000.00 product. Oh, and subtract the $500.00 license fee.
>I already have a license.
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>I prefer to pay a flat fee for each license, not a fee based on the
>price of your software.
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>John Griffin wrote:
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>>Hello David,
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>>Since you were kind enough to clarify some matters on licensing I was hoping you
> would also be open to suggestions. Instead of charging a flat fee for each copy of MySQL
> that is resold why not charge a percentage up to a certain point. It might make it a bit
> easier for developers with inexpensive applications to choose your product. If I know that
> MySQL is going to be, for example, a constant ten percent of my sale cost I can price more
> competitively for the market. The is defiantly a boon for developers who are selling
> applications for the forty to sixty dollar market. As they say, ten percent of something
> is more than ten percent of nothing.
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>>If this pricing scheme will not work for MySQL can you please explain why? I am
> genuinely curious.
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>>John
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