On 9/22/2010 1:07 PM, Mark Burgess wrote:
>
> You will not find prices for datacenter software on any company websites. The 
> price
> depends on many factors, size and length or contract etc. It would be 
> misleading to give a
> price. We used to have a price matrix in the engine room, but it seems to 
> have been
> dropped in the reworking. I'll check it out.

Data point to the contrary:
http://www.opennms.com/pricing/

> Cfengine Nova is aimed at satisfying the needs of businesses. As an 
> administrator, you
> might find what you want in the Open Source version, but your boss is not 
> likely to be
> impressed. Nova is trying to usher in a better way of aligning business and IT
> departments, offering knowledge management and transparency to operations. It 
> handles
> compliance auditing etc and has some extra features to integrate with 
> databases and
> monitoring/analytics. Most Open Source projects do nothing to assure 
> businesses that their
> goals and requirements are being met.

On the other hand fragmenting the code/functionality between different 
open/commercial versions tends to alienate any community support and 
make you expect to hit a dead end with the free version. I'll point to 
opennms again as an example.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikes...@gmail.com



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