> On Oct 19, 2015, at 10:13, Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> wrote: > >> On 10/19/2015 05:15 AM, Compdoc wrote: >> >Well, did you try to find prices at IBM webpage for its products? >> >> I used to work for IBM. I know i cant afford them. Now I service computers >> for small and medium size businesses, and I look for alternatives to >> yearly support subscriptions because in the end, I find the answers to their >> problems. It's been many years since I've needed paid support. Many years. >> >> Really, who doesn't want clear, concise pricing while avoiding salesmen who >> can set prices based on what they think you can afford to pay? And who >> doesn't want anonymity? I spend a lot money with Amazon because i can see >> their prices and there's no waiting... >> >> Anyway, everyone wants to see bacula do well, including me, but adopting the >> business models of huge corporations seems like the antithesis of open >> source, and possibly marks the end of a great open source project. It's sad, >> is all. > > Your point of view seems to me to be a bit too pessimistic. Bacula Systems > is a company that (for the moment) is competing with big companies in the > enterprise market such as EMC, Symantec, IBM, HP, and ... Bacula Systems is > doing quite well in that market and has been consistently growing at about > 65% in revenues each year since its creation, consequently the future of > Bacula Systems looks quite bright. The rather standard way of dealing with > pricing seems to be more an advantage rather than a hindrance at least in the > Enterprise market.
As someone who does not have a horse in this race, I can't say I do much prefer to have some idea of ballpark of price before speaking to someone. It seems a shame to me to initiate a process which generates a quote and to find out that the quote is going to be $100,000 when all I have is $10k, or something like that. Maybe there is some advantage there, because a sales person can work with people individually, but it is nice to let people have a rough idea. However, I am not an enterprise customer. Perhaps they think completely opposite for all I know. Thanks for all you do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
