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I hope they're going to offer pro rata on seat volumes between multiples of 20. If I have just 25 users it's $10,000 (assuming their pricing widget is completel

I hope they're going to offer pro rata on seat volumes between multiples of 20. If I have just 25 users it's $10,000 (assuming their pricing widget is completely accurate).

seiji 15y ago
Enterprise pricing. Learn it, live it, love it. (the point of block pricing is to extract some extra revenue from people in your situation. as a bonus, you get a slight user-license runway so you can add people without paying more if you are in the middle of a license block. also, some companies vastly overestimate their users and will order much more capacity than needed. free money is the best money.)
jvehent 15y ago
If you have 25 devs, you're going to spend a minimum of 1.5/2 millions a years on salaries. Does a $5,000 difference really matters at that point ?
- redthrowaway 15y ago
  If two of those devs decided to throw their workstations off the roof once a year, would the $5000 make a difference? Spending money you don't have to is always a bad idea, so while the unused license space may not make a huge dent on the bottom line, a company that pays attention to those things will likely outperform one that doesn't.
- intranation 15y ago
  Not 25 devs (although that doesn't necessarily change the salary question) - if you want to go "full GitHub" and use the issue tracker for everything, you want all your staff to have access.
dotBen 15y ago
Yeah but you also wound't want to run an equal number of seats to developers either. If you hire a new dev there is a time + $ cost to raising the PO to allow the procurement of a new seat, etc. Additionally, you usually financially plan for annual spend so you would budget for the total number of seats needed by the end of the financial year.
zecho 15y ago
I would assume that as soon as the trial nears its end, some contact will be made with a sales rep. I can't imagine prices aren't negotiable in cases like these. If they aren't it'd be the first time I've seen it. I've ever paid anything close to listed price on any contracts I've negotiated.

I hope they're going to offer pro rata on seat volumes between multiples of 20. If I have just 25 users it's $10,000 (assuming their pricing widget is completely accurate).

seiji 15y ago

Enterprise pricing. Learn it, live it, love it. (the point of block pricing is to extract some extra revenue from people in your situation. as a bonus, you get a slight user-license runway so you can add people without paying more if you are in the middle of a license block. also, some companies vastly overestimate their users and will order much more capacity than needed. free money is the best money.)

jvehent 15y ago

If you have 25 devs, you're going to spend a minimum of 1.5/2 millions a years on salaries. Does a $5,000 difference really matters at that point ?

redthrowaway 15y ago
If two of those devs decided to throw their workstations off the roof once a year, would the $5000 make a difference? Spending money you don't have to is always a bad idea, so while the unused license space may not make a huge dent on the bottom line, a company that pays attention to those things will likely outperform one that doesn't.
intranation 15y ago
Not 25 devs (although that doesn't necessarily change the salary question) - if you want to go "full GitHub" and use the issue tracker for everything, you want all your staff to have access.

dotBen 15y ago

Yeah but you also wound't want to run an equal number of seats to developers either. If you hire a new dev there is a time + $ cost to raising the PO to allow the procurement of a new seat, etc. Additionally, you usually financially plan for annual spend so you would budget for the total number of seats needed by the end of the financial year.

zecho 15y ago

I would assume that as soon as the trial nears its end, some contact will be made with a sales rep. I can't imagine prices aren't negotiable in cases like these. If they aren't it'd be the first time I've seen it. I've ever paid anything close to listed price on any contracts I've negotiated.