Re:Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft
by cpascal on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:39AM
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Their pricing is indeed extremely overpriced, particularly their self-hosted pricing.
10 targets - free
25 targets - $2300/year
50 targets - $4500/year
100 targets - $8800/year
200 targets - $16800/year
400 targets - $32000/year
500 targets - $39000/year
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5000 targets - $290000/year
inf targets - $420000/year
Re:Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft
by Rickasaurus on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:51PM
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It wasn't always so bad, they really screwed over their customer base by jacking up the price on those who already had bought in. I worked at a place where we had picked Octo and we ended up regretting it.
Re:Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft
by flukus on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:17PM
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I wonder if they're feeling the pinch from docker/ansible and other automation tools. Their customer base is probably more likely to jump to these sort of platforms and the rest of the .net world seems to have no concept of automated deployment and if they do it's from some sort of publish wizard in Visual Studio.
Re:Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft
by megakid on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:24AM
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Yep my firm has over 900 targets and our bill went from around $4,000/year to almost $100,000/year. We’ve remained sped up our transition to K8s (long time coming and a silver lining)
Re:Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft
by ehvatum on Thursday January 30, 2020 @10:10AM
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If you license Siemens products, they do this to you roughly three times per year.
Re:Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft
by scarface74 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:45PM
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Luckily, all of our "targets" are moving toward Lambda and Fargate (serverless Docker). We just have it to run CloudFormation templates for deployments. That pricing is ridiculous. I never realized it was that bad.
On another note, Azure Devops has excellent support for AWS. It's better than Amazon's native solutions.
- Octopus Deploy, for the record, is awesome. But it became extremely overpriced in 2018, to the point I wouldn't reccomend it.
- OTOH, I will point out that since the various Release management bits were tossed out by Microsoft, it seems like that's around when FAKE's deployment module started getting ignored. For Ref, FAKE is an OSS Build tool (like MAKE but F# DSL). It used to have a pretty slick remote deployment module, but around 2016-2017 or so they decided there were too many other options out there to be worth continuing development on.