Umm... do you know how retail works? It's not the up to the store. There's a little more involved but basically the margin is the difference between how much the store got said item and its MSRP (manufacture suggested retail price). If the store got a laptop for $800 but it's MSRP is $824.99 you'll begin to see that in order to make a decent profit it would need to sell hundreds of units. Now throw your attachments in there where it costs almost nothing for the company do. That $199 3 yr extended warranty really costs the company $19. On let's say 5 of these sales: (($824.99 - $800) + ($199 - $19)) x 5 ~ $1025... that's a lot more impressive than just 5 lone laptop sales giving the store a revenue of $125. CHA-CHING!
BOB SLYDELL
Y'see, what we're trying to do here, we're just trying to get a feel
for how people spend their day. So, if you would, would you just walk
us through a typical day for you?
PETER
Yeah.
BOB SLYDELL
Great.
PETER
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side
door, that way Lumbergh can't see me. Uh, and after that, I just sorta
space out for about an hour.
BOB PORTER
Space out?
PETER
Yeah. I just stare at my desk but it looks like I'm working. I do that
for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd probably, say, in a
given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.
And now I'm going to go burn the building down cuz I got moved again
And what about secure (HTTPS) pages like my bank website and other bill paying services, or even healthcare sites? I wouldn't want this proxy catching my balances or my private health info. HIPAA could have a field day here.
Ug - pricing on this is much worse than Exchange. From their pricing page:
The Zimbra Collaboration Suite Network - Standard Edition is available for $28/user/year, with a minimum of 500 users. Additional users are $28 per user per year and can be purchased in 50 user blocks. The Standard Edition includes upgrades and the following Premium Support plan:
* Access to the Network Edition-only knowledge base
* Access to Zimbra support services portal, e-mail, phone and 7x24 crisis support
$28 x minimum 500 users = $14000 per year?!
I'm not a Microsoft proponent by any means but Exchange can be purchased for about $1100 w/5 CALs to start then somewhere about $500 every 5 CALs.
For a business with 100 users where SBS 2003 could not help:
Exchange CALs
$1100 + (19 x 500) = $10600 one time (may want to throw in software assurance too)
Best case scenario in a 5 year period and no support calls were made whatsoever:
Zimbra $70000 > Exchange $10600 -- Now as a CEO/CFO or company controller, which would you go with?
In A.D. 2003
War was beginning.
Schoolboy1: What happen ?
Schoolboy2: Somebody set up us the lawsuit
Schoolboy3: We get signal
Schoolboy1: What !
Schoolboy3: Main screen turn on
Schoolboy1: It's You !!
Albatros: How are you gentlemen !!
Albatros: All your translation are belong to us
Albatros: You are on the way to pay us big time
Schoolboy1: What you say !!
Albatros: You have no chance to survive make your time
Albatros: HA HA HA HA....
Schoolboy1: Take off every 'lator'
Schoolboy1: You know what you doing
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Schoolboy1: For great justice
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Well that's good to hear. I use a web based softphone to connect to a FreeSWITCH instance. I sure do hope they block me and I have an "accident".
Umm... do you know how retail works? It's not the up to the store. There's a little more involved but basically the margin is the difference between how much the store got said item and its MSRP (manufacture suggested retail price). If the store got a laptop for $800 but it's MSRP is $824.99 you'll begin to see that in order to make a decent profit it would need to sell hundreds of units. Now throw your attachments in there where it costs almost nothing for the company do. That $199 3 yr extended warranty really costs the company $19. On let's say 5 of these sales: (($824.99 - $800) + ($199 - $19)) x 5 ~ $1025... that's a lot more impressive than just 5 lone laptop sales giving the store a revenue of $125. CHA-CHING!
BOB SLYDELL
Y'see, what we're trying to do here, we're just trying to get a feel
for how people spend their day. So, if you would, would you just walk
us through a typical day for you?
PETER
Yeah.
BOB SLYDELL
Great.
PETER
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side
door, that way Lumbergh can't see me. Uh, and after that, I just sorta
space out for about an hour.
BOB PORTER
Space out?
PETER
Yeah. I just stare at my desk but it looks like I'm working. I do that
for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd probably, say, in a
given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.
And now I'm going to go burn the building down cuz I got moved again
And what about secure (HTTPS) pages like my bank website and other bill paying services, or even healthcare sites? I wouldn't want this proxy catching my balances or my private health info. HIPAA could have a field day here.
I'm not a Microsoft proponent by any means but Exchange can be purchased for about $1100 w/5 CALs to start then somewhere about $500 every 5 CALs.
For a business with 100 users where SBS 2003 could not help:
Exchange CALs
$1100 + (19 x 500) = $10600 one time (may want to throw in software assurance too)
Best case scenario in a 5 year period and no support calls were made whatsoever:
Zimbra $70000 > Exchange $10600 -- Now as a CEO/CFO or company controller, which would you go with?
See the pricing for yourself - http://www.zimbra.com/products/pricing.html
In A.D. 2003 ....
War was beginning.
Schoolboy1: What happen ?
Schoolboy2: Somebody set up us the lawsuit
Schoolboy3: We get signal
Schoolboy1: What !
Schoolboy3: Main screen turn on
Schoolboy1: It's You !!
Albatros: How are you gentlemen !!
Albatros: All your translation are belong to us
Albatros: You are on the way to pay us big time
Schoolboy1: What you say !!
Albatros: You have no chance to survive make your time
Albatros: HA HA HA HA
Schoolboy1: Take off every 'lator'
Schoolboy1: You know what you doing
Schoolboy1: Move 'lator'
Schoolboy1: For great justice