To be perfectly honest, from having rooted around the Plesk 10 model, I have a hard time yet seeing how a product can deviate that far from its old model, remove existing features as it moves along, and still be called by the same product name. It is like an attempt to on purpose chase away existing customers and only focus on a new and different market, using a totally different code base. (Although I have not yet figured out a market segment that would be able to accept that little security and so little separation between users. (Example: Multiple ftp users rolling on the same ID, email users seeing other user's information, subdomains with maybe totally different applications running (and the main domain) sharing login ids, ...)
I know the cost of developing the old features is theoretically sunk cost, and maybe should not play into the business case, but when existing customers expect the features contained in it, maybe its not such a good idea to throw it all away?
Maybe the code trees should have been separated. Old Plesk 9 separate out and stay "Plesk", go on its mery way towards incremental updates into a different Plesk 10, 11, 12, but following the old model.
And the current Plesk 10 could change it name and be offered to it's expected new customer base; Whatever it might be. (If someone figure that out, please tell me.
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