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09.30.2005

How Google Killed Urchin

Give it up for the guys over at TextDrive: They’ve declared war on Google and Urchin.

In case you haven’t heard, TextDrive’s been hav­ing prob­lems renew­ing a license they had for using Urchin’s stat soft­ware. It seems Urchin just doesn’t want their money. Well, this slight of hand has prompted TextDrive to take action: they’re going to build a bet­ter stats package.

I’ve been fol­low­ing a thread over here at the TextDrive forum about Urchin refus­ing to let TextDrive pay them money to renew/upgrade their dat­a­cen­ter license. There are cur­rently around 5000 domains hosted on TextDrive.

Since about mid-August or so, the fine staff have called, e-mailed, and oth­er­wise tried to hunt down some­one at Urchin that could help them pay the com­pany money.

Since the Google acqui­si­tion, it seems that Urchin has moved dat­a­cen­ters and is “re-evaluating” their pric­ing model. Looks like they’re push­ing hard for a subscription-based, Hosted model.

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Some have called it a case of David vs. Goliath, I’m call­ing it plain com­mon sense. If a com­pany can’t deliver what you need, make some­thing bet­ter! I can’t wait to see what TextDrive comes up with. Kick some butt, guys.



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