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Actually, I know of a number of products that are in the [1K, 75K] range. * Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate * vSphere datacenter edition * TestComplete from Smar
by pnathan 15y ago
Actually, I know of a number of products that are in the [1K, 75K] range.
* Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
* vSphere datacenter edition
* TestComplete from SmartBear
* > 3 perforce licences
- Q6T46nT668w6i3m 15y agoAdobe and Autodesk too. While Apple recently modified their bundles and lowered the prices for Final Cut Pro and Logic, they were both within this range and did more or less what Alex described.
- nl 15y agoIf you are paying list price for those then you are doing it wrong
- pnathan 15y agoSure, but if you get 40% discount on, say, 10K, that's still over 1K.
- notaddicted 15y agoJoel's article was written in 2004 so, using gasoline as the benchmark, the 2012 dollars figure is $2180 [1]. [1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28average+price+of+gasoline+2012%29%2F%28average+price+of+gasoline+2004%29+*+%241000&a=UnitClash_*%24.*USDollars--&a=*DPClash.GasPriceE.gasoline-_*AllGrades.dflt- http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28average+price+of+gas...
- einhverfr 15y agoSQL Server was in that range for many forms of licenses, and so was Windows Server when I worked at Microsoft. Actually I could think of a lot of software in that range. Today, I was looking at UBS in South-East Asia..... A basic system may be a bit below $2k, but a functional system is probably about $4-5k. Also a basic functional system of Sage ERP for smaller businesses is often well above $10k and below $50k
- endersshadow 15y agoSQL Server was $50k per socket (going to core) for the Enterprise Edition as a list price. The typical SQL Server sale was >$100k, easily. Also, sales were negotiated and Microsoft licensing is totally fluid, especially if an Enterprise Agreement comes into the mix (where the cost is spread out over a few years). People citing MS licenses here are blind to how the majority of MS license in Enterprises get sold--huge deals with multi-year subscriptions that cost lots of money. MS will typically "true up" licenses at the end of an EA.
- adamtmca 15y agoGasoline is a poor choice of benchmark. Energy prices aren't really a proxy for inflation. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=core+inflation+from+2004+to+2012 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=core+inflation+from+200...
- anamax 15y ago> Gasoline is a poor choice of benchmark. Energy prices aren't really a proxy for inflation. Core inflation is also a poor choice. My housing costs are fixed, so the variation that I see is in the things that core inflation excludes.
- jsight 15y agoI am not sure that I understand your mention of housing costs. Doesn't core inflation exclude housing costs as well?
- anamax 15y agoAccording to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_inflation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_inflation , core inflation excludes food and energy. It does not exclude housing.
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoThe price of one license doesn't matter. What matters is the dollar amount of a sell, and I promise most of those products are being sold in the <$1k or >$75k range. The exception is Smart Bear, but they are one of the few "doing it right".