Pricing a Software Product

prostoalex writes "Eric Sink from SourceGear shares his experience on software pricing. Whether you're developing open-source or proprietary software, the money has to come into the business in some form, and the article suggests several strategies as well as the pitfalls for managing software pricing. Sink claims it's tough to compete on price, dangerous to run seasonal promotions and almost impossible to avoid criticism on being over-priced."

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Re:The correct pricing structure for most software

[ackthpt]

...is free.

You're confusing it with Beer, which wants to be free. You never actually buy beer, anyway, you only pay rent on it.

For anyone who went to see Festival Express, about a concert tour across Canada (featuring Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Band, and others) there's a great bit about some mayor of a canadian city along the way insisting the promotor let the children of his city into the concert free(!) What with all the difficulty they encountered in Toronto and the capital outlay for a train and all the venues and paying the bands (16 bands? all day concerts!) the promotor took the mayor aside and slugged him.