Well the best way to get what you want is to take contact with Bacula Systems. All professional salesmen "qualify" potential customers very quickly to see if there is a match between budget and a rough estimate of the cost of any product.
If you go to: http://www.baculasystems.com/support/subscriptions you will see what product range you fit into -- then just follow the links and the salesmen will quickly give you an idea of the cost. If I remember right prices run from a few thousand dollars for a small site to approximately $50-100K for a large site, but I suspect that you will be on the low end. In addition, Universities usually get a better deal, which is why it is better to talk to someone. Best regards, Kern On 10/20/2015 06:40 AM, Novosielski, Ryan wrote: >> 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
