I almost forgot, Adremsoft used to make something called freecon. It was a nice little client side tool which dumped an NLM on your Netware server and allowed for quick console access to your servers. It seems as if they discontinued freecon and replaced it with litecon, the same exact piece of software, which costs $500. Good one fellas.
I’m not in 3rd party software sales, but one the biggest problems I see as a consumer, is the pricing put on some of these products. Many times, they blow the pricing of the parent software(NetWare in this case) right out of the water. When you’re paying as much for a 3rd party utility as you are a mature operating system or a complete email solution, your product starts to look less attractive. For what it’s worth, that is coming from the viewpoint of someone who works and purchases software for a non profit organization.
At any rate, time to find a replacement.
I too was amazed. I’ve used Freecon for years and I was at a new customer and went out to grab it for them and searched and could not find it. Googling, I came across your blog. I can’t believe it, $500 for the same product I agree is way too much. Maybe $50 is about right. Guess I’ll have to get used to using NoRM now. Looks like they are trying to milk what they can out of it while NetWare is still around.
Matt,
I’d be interested to know if ANYONE will actually purchase a license for the product.