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An 8-core server? Please. Just my team uses 70 vCores (peak) in our Kubernetes cluster. Without a custom licensing agreement that's $140k/year. The whole compan
by tsss 4y ago
An 8-core server? Please. Just my team uses 70 vCores (peak) in our Kubernetes cluster. Without a custom licensing agreement that's $140k/year. The whole company is bound to pay well over $500k/year.
Furthermore, most people here (as usual) seem to be completely ignorant about what Akka is. The vast majority of Akka users only ever interact with Akka through other libraries that depend on it: Akka-HTTP, Akka-Streams, Alpakka Connectors, etc. Hardly anyone actually uses Akka actors directly, the Akka Cluster platform or recently implemented distributed programming features (like Akka persistence) that makes up the business model of Lightbend. It's essentially a runtime system; an implementation detail. It's no surprise that none of these users ever make contributions back to a software that is so far removed from business code.
- res0nat0r 4y agoSince they aren't charging any companies that make less than $25 million a year this sounds reasonable. Most folks here don't seem to grasp the cost of most enterprise software, Oracle has been charging 10x this for decades now. https://www.oracle.com/assets/technology-price-list-070617.pdf https://www.oracle.com/assets/technology-price-list-070617.p...
- zihotki 4y agoIf you think from a different perspective that may be not reasonable. Consider a company that has multiple sources of income. One of the sources uses Akka and brings only, for example, 2.5 million a year. And now the expenses of running it will grow considerably, it may even become on the verge of sustainability because total income of the company is more than $25 million. It's not very reasonable in this case. That's why usually vendors have different plans to choose from.