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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=872170819-16012009><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Mr. Smit wrote:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=872170819-16012009>> </SPAN>I'm running for several years
Brian's software, Bluequartz and several applications i bought. I'm not very
happy he stopped without any notice.</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=872170819-16012009>> </SPAN>With the webinstaller it was
possible to install very fast third party software. I bought Wordpress, Mantis,
Joomla, stTicket, Dokuwiki etc.</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=872170819-16012009>> </SPAN>Are there other places on
the web available to buy these webinstall "pkg's" ?!? (on the website of
Brian there where about 30 available)</DIV>
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size=2>></FONT><BR><SPAN class=872170819-16012009><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> </FONT></SPAN>Are the people who are not upgrading to
BlueOnyx?</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=872170819-16012009><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Yea, his decision to shutdown with no notice really put me out as
well. I run four BQ servers currently and I had meant to get a bunch more
web app installers for my clients and also I needed to update to his latest
SPAMASSASSIN package which I love. I have to hold off on BO until there is a
good option for this problem.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=872170819-16012009><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Now the only choice is Solarspeed, who I respect but with euro conversion
it will cost me about $1000 to get spamassassin for 4 servers versus $200 from
Brian. Michael any chance of a change to your price structure? Multiple
server discount? Maybe charge for quarterly updates and charge separately for
custom support or something. If the price was a little more
reasonable for a company running multiple servers I would do
it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=872170819-16012009><FONT face=Arial
size=2>The ironic thing is when I moved to Virtbiz (Shout out to Chris!) he
suggested that rather than pack lots of accounts on one server (as I had been
doing), that instead go with less expensive smaller servers but more of
them. This would lead to better bandwidth and smaller points of failure.
Well he was right and I am very pleased with the four servers I have and I am
planning on a fifth soon too, but in this one respect it really makes life tough
having to buy 4 expensive copies of something where when Brian charged $50 it
was no problem. Heck Brian gave out the installer but I still made sure I
bought multiple copies of everything because he deserved the
support.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=872170819-16012009><FONT face=Arial
size=2>As I said this is not a rant at Michael or Solarspeed, I simply thought
if a lot of us speak up he might see there is a lot of volume to do here, maybe
though a US reseller capable of support. Anybody?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=872170819-16012009><FONT face=Arial size=2>M
Aronoff out</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=872170819-16012009><FONT face=Arial
size=2>West Hills, CA</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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