Re:Open source software only comes in one edition: awesome.
by ZeroGravitas on Friday July 03, 2009 @04:40AM
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There is worse in the enterprise market, where they basically charge exactly what you can afford (sometimes a bit more) ratcheting it up as you get more and more locked-in. Read about software pricing economics and how you just have to suck it up till you hit the "Fuck You Oracle" point here:
Amusingly, it looks like he'll be an Oracle employee since they are now buying Sun.
(Note, this is "just business" as far as I'm concerned, i.e. about .7 on the weasel scale. What saddens me is organisations too short-sighted or misinformed to see the trap they are lumbering into as they are too distracted by salesmen with slick powerpoints, particularly if they are governments wasting my tax dollars)
http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/date/20040828#the_economics_of_soft...
Amusingly, it looks like he'll be an Oracle employee since they are now buying Sun.
(Note, this is "just business" as far as I'm concerned, i.e. about .7 on the weasel scale. What saddens me is organisations too short-sighted or misinformed to see the trap they are lumbering into as they are too distracted by salesmen with slick powerpoints, particularly if they are governments wasting my tax dollars)