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Ask HN: Which are some of the most expensive off-the-shelf sw products?
We all buy windows and at the most photo shop for few hundred dollars. But which are some of the most expensive software products around?
I have heard of SCADE suite and SCADE graphics each costing around $100k
- Shooter 17y agoYou won't find it at Best Buy, obviously, but we sell a software product that starts at US$1.4 million, not including any support or customization. (It's a super-small niche product and saves our customers tens of millions each year, so we have no trouble getting our price. In fact, we've been told we should charge more by a few customers.) Several of our companies sell software in excess of $100k. Price is completely unimportant. Value is supremely important. That's true whether your selling off-the-shelf software or bespoke software. Interestingly, our unit sales often increase when we raise prices.
- RK 17y agoOne of my relatives works in the petroleum exploration industry as a consultant. He told me that on a recent stint in Moscow he came across a real, physical software black market. He said that they basically told him they could get him anything he wanted, including the $100k+ software packages his firm uses for oil exploration with cracked hardware dongles for authentication. They just needed a couple days notice and were charging a few hundred $.
- digamber_kamat 17y agoThat is nothing. You come to India and in any metro city you will find several software DVDs being sold for 1-2$. This includes things from Windows 7 to Photoshop. From all games to Autocad. If something is not available they arrange it within two days.