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Sure, IT budgets are growing more slowly than they used to, but they are still bigger than they have ever been. The idea that 1$/user/month is outside an "ente
by jmacd 18y ago
Sure, IT budgets are growing more slowly than they used to, but they are still bigger than they have ever been.
The idea that 1$/user/month is outside an "enterprise" budget is laughable. Stop making things up.
- aneesh 18y ago> "The idea that 1$/user/month is outside an "enterprise" budget is laughable." So is the idea that Fortune 500 companies would let data like this be in the cloud.
- jmacd 18y agoYeah,. Agree., even if I wish it wasn't the case. I have been seeing a lot of cool thinking on how The Cloud can go private for these orgs. In a way, that has started. A lot of software providers (including us) will sell a VM image that can be loaded up and moved around as needed (to provision more hardware). It seems like a baby-step.
- sabat 18y agoI'm not making things up; I work in an 'enterprise'. (And I still dislike that term.) $1/user/month in a 40,000-person enterprise (smaller than, say, Oracle) would be $480,000/year, not a trivial sum to get in the current climate.
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoThat presumes that every person in the organization signs up. Actual adoption is likely to be far lower.
- jmacd 18y agoThis also assumes that an organization that big would ever even consider paying the going-rate for a piece of software. Now way. They also would never thrown down their credit card for a 40k/month expense.