Jay,
Here is an overview on pricing for SmarterMail and SpamFoo.
Most of you already know that all our competitors basically charge for every mailbox, and most of our competitors are twice as expensive, if not more.
We know our customers appreciate our licensing approach and REALLY appreciate that they can build behemoth servers with our Unlimitted license.
The Antispam and Cybersecurity world is also primarily per mailbox or per user licensing.
Because we’re trying to avoid industry trends and offer our customers licensing models that are far more flexible and cheaper, it limits what companies we can partner with.
It’s almost impossible to find an Antispam company who would offer Unlimitted Antispam for an Unlimitted SmarterMail, and our other licensing levels just don’t work with these companies either.
If we partnered with some of the major Antispam companies, you would be paying more for Antispam than you would for SmarterMail. And, most of those Antispam companies aren’t much better than Cyren and MessageSniffer and are still based off legacy technologies, unlike SpamFoo.
For this reason, we are working diligently with SpamFoo to offer our customers similar pricing they are familiar with, with Cyren and Message Sniffer. In addition, SpamFoo offers email classifications, which is a feature that customers have been asking for, for a long while.
SmarterMail High Availability (HA) is built on a per user model but is priced VERY similarly to how SmarterMail has been sold. With SmarterMail HA, we look at each node like an Unlimited and work with our partners to provide add-ons for every Node.
SmarterTools works very hard to keep pricing VERY low compared to our competitors, and we negotiate with our partners in the same manner. We have a few select customers who like to jump all over us because they’re generally pessimistic, but after 20 years of working with us, should realize our efforts but they still like to take every opportunity to demonize us.
In any case, once we finish our negotiations with SpamFoo, we will be releasing more info on pricing.