Oh yes, per-seat licensing can be a huge problem.
I experienced a case in which a customer, for which most of the projects of our company were done, was requiring us to use a particular tool with paid licenses. They provided 2 or 3 floating licenses for the entire team of 30+ people, making that tool a huge bottleneck for us. They kept arguing that licenses are like 1k EUR each, but I don't think they ever realized they were wasting more money each month by slowing our work down.
Re:Future Pricing for Atlassian Cloud
by strictnein on Sunday July 09, 2017 @05:54PM
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It's $1 a month per user after 250 users. If that's not "casual read access tier" pricing, I'm not sure what is.
Re:Future Pricing for Atlassian Cloud
by joemaller1 on Sunday July 09, 2017 @11:23PM
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If you've got 250 users, you've probably got someone to manage these costs too. If you've got 12-40 users and much tighter operating budgets, read-only users get kind of costly.
There needs to be a casual read access tier.