Mariner Software is running a Five Pack Friday sale from today through Friday, Sept 2, 2005. Aimed at small businesses (or large families), the sale slashes the price of all Five Packs of any of their product lines by 50%. Basically a buy two and a half, get two and a half for free. A real bargain for some great titles, like
Mariner Calc,
Mariner Write,
MacJournal and
Desktop Poet.
The cool thing about Mariner, aside from their software, is that their policies are unique for a commercial/retail/boxed software company. For instance, they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you don't like the software you return it for a full refund. I don't think Microsoft will take that copy of Office back once you've opened the box, installed it and then discovered that you hate it.
Mariner also offer customers a Lifetime Upgrade Plan... "
The Lifetime Upgrade Plan (LUP) is a
Mariner-exclusive offer to help tackle the rising
costs of upgrading software. For a one-time fee
of $49.95, per product, Mariner customers will
receive EVERY MAJOR UPGRADE FOR THE
LIFETIME OF THE PRODUCT(S). No additional
annual charges, no keeping track of the latest
version, and no hassle with using out dated
versions, we take care of everything and deliver
the product right to your Inbox." There's another thing you'll never see Microsoft or Adobe do.
Today might be a good idea to go directly to your boss and insist that
he take advantage Five Pack Friday instead of Six Pack Friday, for a
change. Let us know how that works out for you.
Mariner Software's MacJournal received a major update this week with some great new features. If you're unfamiliar, MacJournal is a great journaling and organization application with podcasting support, AES-256 encryption and more. It's quite useful and full-featured.
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