Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] products based on bacula

2009-01-20 22:40:42
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] products based on bacula
From: Frank Sweetser <fs AT WPI DOT EDU>
To: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:37:27 -0500
Dan Langille wrote:
> James Harper wrote:
>>> Alan Brown wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Mag Gam wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your computers."
>>>>>
>>>>> My manager would freak if she sees this...
>>>> Given that packages with equivalent functionality to Bacula run to
>> at
>>>> least $30k, why would she freak?
>>> Because many mangers, used to dealing with and fighting over budgets 7
>>> out of 8 hours a day, tend to equate cost with value.  They're used to
>>> paying more to
>>> get what they want, so assume that if they're not paying more,
>>> whatever they're getting must not be what they want.
>>>
>>
>> I'm sure that if you asked him nicely, Kern would be quite willing to
>> charge you a price sufficiently high enough to make your manager happy
>> :)
> 
> Don't tell Kern... I'll charge a better price.  ;)
> 

In this context, that would mean at least double, right?

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