Ask HN: Who is the target audience for ~$1000 software?

Re:Ask HN: Who is the target audience for ~$1000 software? by CyberFonic on Sunday October 15, 2017 @02:32AM (#15476153)

In my experience government departments will buy $1000 + software packages when sold by slick salespersons, especially near the end of their annual budget cycle, when they chose to spend remaining funds so as to not have their budget cut. I have seen dozens of unopened boxes in many IT department offices.

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Re:Ask HN: Who is the target audience for ~$1000 software? by onion2k on Sunday October 15, 2017 @04:17AM (#15476344)

I have seen dozens of unopened boxes in many IT department offices.

Most enterprise software is installed over a network and managed with a license manager. An unopened box is not a sign that the software hasn't been used.

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Re:Ask HN: Who is the target audience for ~$1000 software? by xapata on Sunday October 15, 2017 @04:24AM (#15476363)

Not in the old days.

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Re:Ask HN: Who is the target audience for ~$1000 software? by giancarlostoro on Sunday October 15, 2017 @05:24AM (#15476484)

This happens in colleges too, although they were buying Raspberry Pi's and other cool things that students could use for classes, including an Oculut Rift. It sucks how accounting sort of forces you to buy crazy things to make sure they don't take funds away from you, but it's also kind of cool the kind of stuff you can get away with buying if you word it just right.

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