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Originally Posted by will76
Any chance in selling your software instead of just licensing it, or provide the software's source code to the licensee's if you were to ever decide to stop supporting it or go out of business?
I know you addressed the first one, why you license vs selling it. What about some type of hybrid, "sell it" but make them colo a box with you, and it is setup to your requirements, and your techs get paid per hour if they need to go in and clean up someone else's mess.
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Hi Will76,
In the past we used to allow our customers to host it on any servers they wanted to, but it was a technical support nightmare, and "passing the buck" when a problem was found to be outside of our scope of control was never appreciated either.
In 2004 we decided that this was simply too expensive and decided to do all of our own hosting for our clients. This saved alot of money and created new revenue for us as well.
We have no plans to change this in the near future, however the topic comes up once in a while. Never say never.