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One of my customers who needed to change their remote management tool has been evaluating this based on my recommendation; they were less than pleased with me this morning when the buy now or quit notice landed in their mailbox.

Logmein is no longer free

@GoTo

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OP, there is a better thread here; http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/433767-logmein-free-no-longer-available-is-there-alternitives

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topic of the day today

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This was the email I got. There are reports of others getting a differently worded email.

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Yep, that’s what my client forwarded to me; he was looking for a low cost / no cost 1 man shop management solution that he could use to replace his antiquated product.

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TeamViewer is a 1 time cost, there’s also another Spiceworks partner you should look at too along with many others, and that’s Remote Utilities.

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That’s not actually true; I bought TeamViewer and they pulled a version upgrade on me and then my version wouldn’t work, well, it would connect for a few minutes and then disconnect with a message I need to buy the upgrade and then, after ten minutes it would let me connect for another five.

I’ll never recommend TeamViewer again.

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Well there’s another one you could take a look at too:

Remote Utilities, they are about to release a 10 PC free for business use version.

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Suggested my client look at VNC since all he really needs is a LAN solutions; he uses GoToMyPC to get in remotely.

I just use the VPN so, I don’t care what he has.

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So I went back and looked at our account. I have two licenses for Ignition for Windows, 1 for my Android Laptop and 1 for Central. I just looked at my renewal and it expires in June 2014. I checked to see if I could renew now and it said that I could for $300 for Central and $35.95 each of the ignition for Windows.

Is anyone else with LMIC seeing this? I have yet to receive an email from LMI about the changes to any of my accounts (Free of the one running Central).

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Check the thread link earlier in my post, there are several better threads.

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I have done some further reading through many threads now and now understand the “issue”. I must say that now knowing that at this point I am not going to see an increase of the cost. I may stay where I am at. I do agree that the notification process was sub par However, we have been damn lucky in getting a product for free for so long.

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Yeah but you are going to need to watch out now, as those “free” clients that are now in LMI Central will result in a charge sooner or later.

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They technically aren’t free anymore - as I pay $300/year to have them in Central. So for the 65 units I have I end up paying $4.60/year.

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We had 28 threads on this one yesterday. Over 30 now as of this morning.

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They aren’t even remotely free. It’s not Central gives you free ones, there are tiers. As you add more, the price continues to go up!

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I actually wasn’t at all surprised; that they waited so long did catch my eye though.

Once they had a huge, entrenched freeloading customer base; like a smart drug dealer, they upped the price. A lot of the more entrenched will stick with them. Even if they lose 40 to 60% of their free customer base, they still gain a huge revenue stream with the added bonus of increased capacity by reduced demand without having to outlay more funds for hardware.

Not saying I agree with the tactic but, somebody is probably going to get a promotion and bonus out of this.

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And then they will leave and leave the suckers holding the bag containing pissed off clients.

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