Not to start this whole subject up again, but one of the alternatives to 
tiered pricing was user-based pricing.  One of the well-known HP3K 
utility software companies offers a two-user version of one of their 
products, which I bought, thinking that because we only have two 
people in our IS department, it would be ideal for us.  Well, I 
didn't find out what they considered a "user", and it's 
biting me on the butt, big time.  They count each "execution" 
of their product as a "user".  Thus when my associate had two 
NS/VT sessions going (in separate accounts), running the product 
in each session, and I come along and try to execute the product, 
I get an error about exceeding the user count.  So, it looks 
like we'll have to spring for the unlimited user license (which 
is only another 1.67 times the price of the two-user version), 
because they don't offer anything in between.  So, in this case, 
tiered pricing might have been better.  Maybe. :-)

Sadder, wiser, and soon-to-be-poorer,
Jim Phillips                            Manager of Information Systems
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