"Bob, as much as a nice person you are I would appreciate if you stopped pushing that "reseller idea" around. You are doing it in almost every post of yours ("contact your reseller, who is your reseller, I am a reseller"). I understand this is your bread and butter but you have to understand that vast majority of people here don't need resellers, to put it nicely. A less nicer version would be that they are against them, as the reseller network is what has been stalling Delphi's popularity for decades now. Why? Do you think that if Borland hadn't created their resellers network ages ago EMBT would have created it now? That they would have thought "you know what, let's not sell online in XXI century as everyone else, let's use physical resellers and country specific prices"?
No, they would not have. They just inherited (from Borland/Codegear) some very bizarre reseller structure and they had no idea how to tackle it. Therefore they took no action. And we are in the same situation as in the 80-ies - placing manual orders and waiting for someone to push our order papers to the next desk. Delphi SA renewals are still processed manually even at EMBT in the US!!!! A nice lady called me a few months ago with a quote, I asked her a few questions and I was astonished. She had 300 Delphi quotes on her desk and that was her job for the day. Making 300 phone calls and following up on them with 300 emails. Does EMBT sell database solutions? Hard to believe. Not mentioning that a summer student could create a portal for those orders...
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that resellers are part of the problem. But as long as the resellers exist EMBT won't introduce one online shop with one worldwide price. I spend $$$$ for software every year. And EMBT is the single worst vendor ever. With a huge gap behind them, no one is even close.
Regards."
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The one price does not work because there is never one. I am repeating myself assuming you fix today the price at a rate USD/EUR of 1/1,4 and for some strange reason over the years things would turn into the opposite direction maybe back to the legendary 1,2/1 (> 10 years ago), you have both the lower price and the less attractive exchange rate. Increasing the price ... in such a situation.
MS is not better, compared to the US MSDN in Europe is amazing expensive independent from the 'value' provided. Just from the pricing perspective.
I think would be very interesting to see the Software they work with. In SAP one has a recalculated profitability analysis in 'real-time' but with SAP did come a high degree of automation.
We do no longer want to pay for 'blood diamonds'! We want that all people to be happy! Summer sales forever.
I think this is the point!
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