IT_Architect
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When you download Plesk, you can install it and use it and there are no functionality restrictions other than you are limited to 1-domain and 1-email. That's huge, for these reasons, plus I'm sure some you will come up with.
1. It's a good way to get your product into peoples hands. It costs a lot of time and money to get people to try your product. The lost sales potential is unquantifiable. Imagine if one of the techs at a hosting company decides to download it and play around with it awhile. Talk about qualified lead generation, whoa! What if some home guys used if for free forever. Those guys are going to brag about it. You never had prayer of getting them as a customer anyway. They will be the cheapest salesmen you will ever find. You'll probably end up with free plugins for everything under the sun.
2. Virtualization is hot, and there are incredible advantages. You could have virtual machines ready to download for your supported operating systems like many vendors have today. Your own community could create them. They could even use them in their own roll-outs for customers. All they would need to do is update the license when ready.
3. When people are setting up new servers and experimenting, they can experiment. They could even set up on their internal network, play around with load balancing, failover etc. When they are finished, they could put it in position and buy the license. I'm actually going through this misery now.
4. If there is a problem with the license file update, one can always get into the control panel.
I can't think of anything that should have a higher priority. The second whould be a tutorial or on-line video for the installation.
1. It's a good way to get your product into peoples hands. It costs a lot of time and money to get people to try your product. The lost sales potential is unquantifiable. Imagine if one of the techs at a hosting company decides to download it and play around with it awhile. Talk about qualified lead generation, whoa! What if some home guys used if for free forever. Those guys are going to brag about it. You never had prayer of getting them as a customer anyway. They will be the cheapest salesmen you will ever find. You'll probably end up with free plugins for everything under the sun.
2. Virtualization is hot, and there are incredible advantages. You could have virtual machines ready to download for your supported operating systems like many vendors have today. Your own community could create them. They could even use them in their own roll-outs for customers. All they would need to do is update the license when ready.
3. When people are setting up new servers and experimenting, they can experiment. They could even set up on their internal network, play around with load balancing, failover etc. When they are finished, they could put it in position and buy the license. I'm actually going through this misery now.
4. If there is a problem with the license file update, one can always get into the control panel.
I can't think of anything that should have a higher priority. The second whould be a tutorial or on-line video for the installation.
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Having free versions of anything floating around causes other issues, so at this time, it's not a high priority for us.