Open Source projects get Zoho Discussions for free

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by rajuvegesna • 17 years ago

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ibsulon• 17 years ago

Can someone explain why proprietary vendors are trying to pick up open source clients? It seems like an odd form of advertising.

netcan• 17 years ago

If your fixed costs are high and your marginal costs are low as is usually the case with software, your incentive structure is often strange.

Giving stuff away doesn't cost you much. The downside is that if people already got it free, they won't want to buy it. So, vendors look for little worlds where they can give away software without cannibalising other sales. Let people use it, get comfortable to it and develop a preference for it. When they move on, the vendor hopes they will keep using the product, even if they have to pay.

blasdel• 17 years ago

1) It's insanely effective for SEO and as reputation-building.

2) They're active developers, they have client/employer work that can't be public but needs coordination, and they're the ones who will be setting that up. It's as old as sending free samples to purchasing agents, but much more effective.

simonw• 17 years ago

Dumb question: can you still follow (and post to) Zoho Discussions using e-mail, like you can with Google Groups?

rajuvegesna• 17 years ago

Yes, it has both options.

Zoho Discussions has 'Follow this Topic' option to receive emails on the discussions you are follow.

To post to Zoho Discussions directly from your email, it has Email2Forum option. More details on this are available here.

http://help.discussions.zoho.com/forum-settings.html#Email2F...

https://forums.zoho.com/topic/explain-email2forum-feature%3F

Ofcourse, these features can be made available for free for open source projects.

aravindhanv• 17 years ago

You can also "follow" an entire forum or sub forum and even specific people. You will get an as it happens email.

Would you like to try it out as Django's forums? We can of course bring in the mailing lists in as well. Feel free to contact me at dhan@zohocorp.com - will be glad to assist you in anyway.

Open Source projects get Zoho Discussions for free

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