CompuServe Messages

At our CPA firm we use the CBIS product, CD Connection. It requires a dedicated server so we've been looking for an NLM replacement. OPTI-NET NLM is the front runner right now. All of the tax search services appear to be compatible with it. (We use CCH Access and the Mathew Bender products.) However, I have one big complaint about OPTI-NET: The price is too steep! We are a small CPA firm using a 20-node Netware v3.11 net. We have to have FOUR servers (Fileserver, CD-ROM server, Comm Server & Print Server) due to requirements by the various software packages that we run. Four servers equates to 20% of our resources! The OPTI-NET NLM would be a great way to move the CD-ROM service into the fileserver and free up a machine for use as a workstation, but the dang software costs more than a new machine–even at street prices ($1500 list/ $1200 street)! I have been told that this is because there OPTI-NET NLM only comes in a 100-user license, and not in the 8-user license that the DOS version comes in. Please tell someone in marketing that your company is completely passing up a segment of the market by pricing your product this way! We would pay $700 instantly for a 4-8 user version of the NLM product. We would love to have a "competitive upgrade" pricing incentive (like Lotus, Quattro Pro, Word, Word Perfect, etc.) to get us to move from CBIS. There have to be hundreds if not thousands of small to medium-sized CPA and Law firms out there who are in our same position. At $1500 your product does not make economic sense.