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>price your corporate license at $200-$600 per person per year. I have never been in a situation where there was even a need to discuss the cost of a tool at th
by voltagex_ 11y ago
>price your corporate license at $200-$600 per person per year. I have never been in a situation where there was even a need to discuss the cost of a tool at those price points
Come work for government, then despair.
- amaterasu 11y agoI used to work for a Japanese multinational making networking gear. Excel was part of the mandated SOE, and was used for everything (even unit testing frameworks in VBscript), so this would be a no brainer for their environment. The engineers would have difficulty getting this purchase through as it is too cheap for the enterprise version... In the accountant brain, cheap == a toy for a number of companies.
- patates 11y agoI think the logic is like "they can't possibly support this product at this price point, we would rather depend on something which may be inferior but well-supported".
- tixocloud 11y agoSupport is such a crucial point in enterprise software. The reason why they pay big bucks is they have someone to call when something goes wrong