> On Oct 19, 2015, at 10:13, Kern Sibbald <kern AT sibbald DOT 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.


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