> > From: [email protected] > [mailto:opensolaris- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of > Brandon Hume > > > > > Or you just pay $400/yr to have a paid license > with > > > updates. > > > > I wish you'd be careful throwing around absolute > numbers like that. > > That value is *your* quote. I'm happy for you that > you work for a > > company that can demand such a low support cost. > It must be a large > company, or at least a big customer. > It was a rough number. Any schmo can get that. > Here's how I got that > umber: > Go to http://dell.com and browse to find a server > which supports solaris. > Select "No operating system." Make a note of the > price. Then select the > various solaris options, and see how the price > changes. I believe it's $450 > for solaris & 1yr basic support, or $1200 for 3 yrs. > > If you were quoted $1000 or more, it's for a higher > level of support, or a > longer term of contract. Or else it's a ripoff.
Oh, for the good old days, when basic support (patches+full sunsolve) for a single machine with two cores or less was something like $120/year. Affordable for a small business, even an individual. The notion of significantly underpricing Micro$oft and DeadRat seems to have vanished. I get that there was a profit problem, but I wonder if abandoning the low end is profitable. The big guys will always be paying for full on-site 4-hour (or less) support anyway. The little guys will either pay something they can afford, or they'll go somewhere else cheaper. Sort of like the craziness of the RIAA claiming music sharing as lost money; as if a bunch of teenagers really were going to spend money they didn't have anyway. Were they being ripped off? Yes. Would they have gotten full price on all of it if they hadn't been? No way. Even they came around to the extent of (except for the Beatle's label) supporting downloadable music like iTunes or Amazon have. If those control freaks can understand that not everybody makes $100K/year and can buy an entire CD for one or two decent tracks whenever they feel like it, you'd think that eventually big IT players would get that there's a market for low-end support. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
