I just received the email regarding your price change. 

a.  I like the product sufficiently at this stage that I was willing to spend $200 for two additional licenses (bringing me to 3).

b.  If I had to pay $200 a copy for a release 1 product, I would not have purchased ONE additional copy.  If the product had been through a few releases with a proven track record, the price might not be such an issue.

c.  As things in this game go (meaning Civil Defense/Preparedness/Management/...), we are once again entering the $$ dry season reminiscent of the Clintonian Era after having a Reaganesque eight year spending spree.  The $ bills have finished their clockwise spin down the hopper and now we are once again in belt tightening mode.  With CD/CP/EM budgets dropping, the software budget is going to shrink.  Not a good time to raise prices -- even Microsoft is starting to awake from their slumber.

I respectfully suggest that you either re-consider the price increase, or provide some "bundles" to entice folks whose needs won't be in the tens or hundreds of copies.  Adding a software development kit to entice we open-source folks to add value would be another good move.

Respectully yours,

john
(an old Cold War CD guy)