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My first real software job, I asked how much do we charge for this thing? Sales guy told me it was $50k. I was like, what? This thing isn't worth 50k. Sales man

• matwood 3y ago
  And what they'll pay is always negotiable, especially in enterprise sales where you would see $50k type prices.
  • pixl97 3y ago
    Why is enterprise software expensive? Because enterprise support is expensive. It always starts out easy "We want this thing X to do Y, we probably won't use it that much" Which turns into "X has our entire enterprise down" and you're like WTF, how can that be, and they are like "Well it worked so good we turned it into a main line of business app and didn't tell you" then "oh yea, can we get 24/7 support on it now" which turns into "The support people we talk to need to understand their shit because this is hitting a database and API endpoint pretty damned hard" Then all of a sudden that $50k goes nowhere unless you're selling that shit again and again to keep up with your internal costs of making sure they are working.
    • matwood 3y ago
      Of course, which is why the typical enterprise prices are large to begin with.
• HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
  Salesman was right, but keep in mind that what it's worth to them is always going to be more than they'll pay. Otherwise, there would be no point.