Re: Tierred pricing (was Tiger tools...)

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

But if they need to gouge the larger machines in order to subsidize the
smaller customers then they must be losing money on the smaller customers.
If so, then why market to them at all?

Rob Berendt

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On Tuesday 30 October 2001 10:29 am, Brad Stone wrote:

> 1.  Besides the fact that it's the "norm", what reasons are
> given for the need to price software on a tierred level?

Economics of the software vendor. Trying to provide a strong enough revenue
stream so that they can stay in business without pricing themselves out of
the smaller business markets.