Pay for Lotus Quickr Content Integrator? Why?
Today I were in IBM's Quickr technical education. Talking about Lotus Quickr Content Integrator reminded me this question. Why do a customer pay for Lotus Quickr Content Integrator?
This product provides content integration between Lotus Quickr and other content sources like Teamroom, Sharepoint, Exchange Public Folders or Domino.Doc Document Manager.
It costs over 35K for 100 PVUs; expensive huh? It is like buying 400 Quickr user licenses!
I can understand that a customer may have a Sharepoint site, so large that migration may last several months. You may need a long transition period with coexisted environment.
However, a smaller implementation may be migrated in weeks! 35K for several weeks of migration... We should be promoting migrations towards our product, right?
I searched for entitlements on ibm.com, don't want to make a mistake about it. I couldn't find anything. I cannot even verify that if Domino.Doc licensees are entitled to use Content Integrator as a friend told me today. If I am wrong about it, I'd like to be wrong. Please do not hesitate to correct me :)
My suggestion is to entitle Lotus Quickr customers for a limited time, say 1 month. It may also be bounded by purchasing type (for trading licenses only) or quantity (100 users at least).