Re: Zend hit (Encoder price)

> Unfortunately, it's not that simple. > > You haven't factored in Support costs nor administrative overhead nor... > Well, I don't know what else the Marketing folks do when they figure these > things out, but that's why I'm not in Marketing, eh? Right it's not my game either (marketing), but perhaps Zend would be willing to supply why the price is at $6,000. As you said above , it doesn't just stop when I buy the encoder. Whose going to do the encoding and continue doing the encoding with continued releases etc? A graphic designer? A consultant? I have listened to the arguments, 6000 is steep when you compare it with a download from freshmeat. Writing a c-module is not *that* far away from writing some of the more complicated php/perl/python scripts. Indeed this is what furthers php. I would rather see Zend charging for support contracts, rather than the actual product....